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First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do. — Epictetus

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer. — Epictetus

Persist and resist". Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. - Epictetus — Ryan Holiday

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened. — Epictetus

Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various. — Epictetus

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you. — Epictetus

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it. — Epictetus

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! — Epictetus

If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported. — Epictetus

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life. — Epictetus

In short, we do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it. — Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. — Epictetus

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well. — Epictetus

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not. — Epictetus

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. — Epictetus

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing. — Epictetus

There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes. — Epictetus

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. — Epictetus

When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval. — Epictetus

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves. — Epictetus

Stop honouring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things. — Epictetus

Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow. — Epictetus

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose. — Epictetus

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit — Epictetus

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions. — Epictetus

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. — Epictetus

Consider the bigger picture ... think things through and fully commit! — Epictetus

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. — Epictetus

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are. — Epictetus

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events. — Epictetus

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. — Epictetus

You're not yet Socrates, but you can still live as if you want to be him. — Epictetus

Always remember what is your own and what is not, and you'll never be troubled. [ — Epictetus

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own. — Epictetus

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well. — Epictetus

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire. — Epictetus

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether. — Epictetus

What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard? - It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of. — Epictetus

Destroy desire completely for the present. For if you desire anything which is not in our power, you must be unfortunate — Epictetus

Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly. — Epictetus

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself. — Epictetus

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. — Epictetus

Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes. — Epictetus

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. — Epictetus

As Epictetus says, Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Books are the training weights of the mind. — Epictetus

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Laini Taylor

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. — Epictetus

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. — Epictetus

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth. — Epictetus

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance — Epictetus

I want to die, even though I don't have to. — Epictetus

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass. — Epictetus

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events? — Epictetus

With ills unending strives the putter off. — Epictetus

Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it. — Epictetus

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself. — Epictetus

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. — Epictetus

You become what you give your attention to. — Epictetus

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants. — Epictetus

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe. — Epictetus

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness — Epictetus

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God. — Epictetus

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. — Epictetus

Adopt new habits yourself: consolidate your principles by putting them into practice. — Epictetus

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. — Epictetus

- ... .when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say "I won't play any longer", and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting. — Epictetus

If you wish to write, write. — Epictetus

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men. — Epictetus

No great thing is created suddenly. — Epictetus

Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another. — Epictetus

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world ... Focus on your main duty — Epictetus

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. — Epictetus

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? — Epictetus

Appear to know only this
never to fail nor fall. — Epictetus

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated. — Epictetus

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. - EPICTETUS — Jonathan Haidt

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy. — Epictetus

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems — Epictetus

Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get. — Epictetus

Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us. — Epictetus

Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council. — Epictetus

Think of God more often than thou breathest. — Epictetus

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. — Epictetus

All religions must be tolerated ... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. — Epictetus

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. — Epictetus

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment. — Epictetus

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — Epictetus

Only the educated are free. — Epictetus

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth. — Epictetus

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening. — Epictetus

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers. — Epictetus

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character. — Epictetus

Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them. — Epictetus

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. — Epictetus

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse. — Epictetus

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. — Epictetus

God save me from fools with a little philosophy - no one is more difficult to reach. — Epictetus

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things. — Epictetus