Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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.
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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.
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