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Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

Epictetus

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Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
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What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
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If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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