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.
EPICTETUSAnything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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 he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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