No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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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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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 impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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You 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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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