We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EPICTETUSIf you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Only the educated are free.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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