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Epictetus Quote - It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
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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Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
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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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Appointment Arrive Business Event Happen
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
Difficulty shows what men are.
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Character Difficult Men One Liner
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
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.
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Alone Appearance Impression Life People Strength
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Goodness Learning Manner Speak
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Circumstance Deep Himself Man Mask Reveal
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
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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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True

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