Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSIf you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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