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.
EPICTETUSOther people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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 not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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