Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EPICTETUSNothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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