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Practise thyself even in the things which thou despairest of accomplishing.
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“Practise thyself even in the things which thou despairest of accomplishing.”

Marcus Aurelius

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Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Date
c. 170
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George Long — Translator · from Ancient Greek
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Meaning of “Practise thyself even in the things which thou…”

Practice is offered as an answer to discouragement: inability today does not establish permanent inability when the skill itself can be trained.

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Meditations, Book XII, section 6, George Long translation.

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If you would make anything a habit, do it.
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“If you would make anything a habit, do it.”

Epictetus · Discourses of Epictetus · c. 125
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Habit formation is reduced to repeated action: the behavior itself is what trains the pattern.

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Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter XVIII, “How we should struggle against appearances,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. This short catalog record is an excerpt of Long’s longer clause “Generally then if you would make any thing a habit, do it”; this collection lightly normalizes “any thing” to “anything.”

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Generally then if you would make anything a habit, do it.
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“Generally then if you would make anything a habit, do it.”

Epictetus · Discourses of Epictetus · c. 125 CE
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Repeated behavior trains the corresponding habit, so change depends on practicing the desired action rather than merely endorsing it in theory.

Source details

Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter XVIII, “How we should struggle against appearances,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. This collection lightly normalizes Long’s “any thing” to “anything”; this longer record contains the shorter retained habit excerpt represented by a separate legacy quote URL.

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