By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSYou have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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