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Motivational Quotes by Epictetus
- What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
- 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…
- Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For…
- Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can…
- Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.'…
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Only the educated are free.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- No man is free who is not master of himself.
- The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
- Only the educated are free. --Epictetus
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