We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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