Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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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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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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