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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

Epictetus

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUS

Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
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.
EPICTETUS

Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
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.
EPICTETUS

Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
EPICTETUS

Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
EPICTETUS

Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUS

Important Philosophy Silence Speak Wisdom
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUS

Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUS

Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUS

Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EPICTETUS

Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUS

Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
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.
EPICTETUS

Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
EPICTETUS

Grief Happiness Man Rejoice Satisfaction Wise

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

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