Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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