It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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