Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
EPICTETUSIt’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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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