We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EPICTETUSIt’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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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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.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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