Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody 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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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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