Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSWe can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Only the educated are free.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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