It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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