Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSEvery 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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