Epictetus

Make it your goal never to fail in your desires or experience things you would rather avoid; try never to err in impulse and repulsion; aim to be perfect also in the practice of attention and withholding judgment.

Epictetus

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus

Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought.

Epictetus

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

Epictetus

Never praise or blame people on common grounds; look to their judgements exclusively. Because that is the determining factor, which makes everyone’s actions either good or bad.

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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

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

Epictetus

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

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Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don’t desire what belongs to another.

Epictetus

Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I’ll show you a Stoic.

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