The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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