If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other
EpictetusThe greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EpictetusLearn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.
EpictetusWhen something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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