It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Only the educated are 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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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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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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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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