It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
EPICTETUSDon’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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Only the educated are free.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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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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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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