Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
EPICTETUSImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
More Epictetus Quotes
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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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.
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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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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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Only the educated are free.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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