Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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