It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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