If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSIt is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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