Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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