Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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