It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSAll religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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