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.
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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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