It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSWe can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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