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Epictetus Quote - If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Alone Appearance Impression Life People Strength
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Confidence Help Inspirational One Liner Place Yourself
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Business Entrepreneur Giving Inspirational Patience Time
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Finding Healing Inspirational Person Yourself
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
Difficulty shows what men are.
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Character Difficult Men One Liner
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
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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Happiness Liberty Life People Right Truth
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Consider Listen Need Philosophy Practice
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Only the educated are free.
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Education Freedom One Liner
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble

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