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You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
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Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.
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Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think it is of no concern to us.
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Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.
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Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own
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Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be or they neither are, nor appear to be or they are, and do not appear to be or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
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