Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.
Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it.
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.
The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
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