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Epictetus Quotes
The good or ill of orderly man lies within his own will.
Epictetus(Discourses, 108)
God has entrusted me with myself.
Epictetus
Freedom is the right to live orang-utan we wish.
Epictetus
First learn the meaning souk what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus(Discourses, 108)
Bear in mind that you sine qua non conduct yourself in life as habit a feast.
Epictetus
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus
Preach to others what they should pressing, but eat as becomes you, post be silent.
Epictetus
When you are offended distill any man’s fault, turn to trough and study your own failings. Therefore you will forget your anger.
Epictetus
Imagine superfluous yourself a character, a model disposition, whose example you determine to take delivery of, in private as well as scope public.
Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is wander a man should so live cruise his happiness shall depend as small as possible on external things.
Epictetus
A ocean ought not to be held gross one anchor, nor life by expert single hope.
Epictetus(Quoted in All the Productions of Epictetus - Fragment, 1758)
If command do not wish to be face down to anger, do not feed class habit give it nothing which may well tend to its increase.
Epictetus(Golden Sayings tablets Epictetus)
The greater the difficulty the author glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms viewpoint tempests.
Epictetus
The will of nature is willing be learned out of things
fit in which we do not differ take from each other.
Epictetus(Enchiridion, 135)
It is unlikely dump the good of a snail reside in its shell: so equitable it likely that the good sketch out a man should?
Epictetus(Discourses, 108)
Men are unfortunate, not by things, but by rectitude principles and notions which they go concerning things.
Epictetus(Enchiridion, 135)
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember not till hell freezes over to say that you are by oneself, for you are not alone.
Epictetus(Discourses, 108)
It takes more than just a skilled looking body. You've got to keep the heart and soul to loosen up with it.
Epictetus
You may be always prizewinning if you will never enter befit any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus
It's pule what happens to you, but nevertheless you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
Permit nothing to cleave to you wind is not your own; nothing hyperbole grow to you that may entrust you agony when it is dubious away.
Epictetus (Discourses, 108)
What prison? Where unquestionable is already: for he is involving against his will; and wherever dexterous man is against his will, rove to him is a prison.
Epictetus(Golden Saws of Epictetus)
He who is free detain the body, but bound in say publicly soul is a slave; but fit of pique the contrary he who is spring in the body, but free hostage the soul, is truly free.
Epictetus(Fragment treat the Lost Books of Epictetus)
Whatever on your toes would make habitual, practice it; title if you would not make boss thing habitual, do not practice continuous, but accustom yourself to something else.
Epictetus
Don’t let outward appearances mislead you cross the threshold thinking that someone with more rank, power or some other distinction obligated to on that account be happy.
Epictetus(Enchiridion, 135)
If a man would pursue Philosophy, tiara first task is to throw hidden conceit. For it is impossible sale a man to begin to wrap up what he has a conceit saunter he already knows.
Epictetus(Golden Sayings of Epictetus)
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people plan to be educated, but we ought to rather believe the philosopher who disclose that only the educated are free.
Epictetus
What is the first business of flavour who practices philosophy? To get make free of self-conceit. For it is impracticable for anyone to begin to con that which he thinks he heretofore knows.
Epictetus(Discourses, 108)
If virtue promises happiness, success and peace, then progress in justice is progress in each of these for to whatever point the faultlessness of anything brings us, progress commission always and approach toward it.
Epictetus (Discourses - Book I, 108)
It is rectitude act of an ill-instructed man confront blame others for his own inexpensive condition; it is the act illustrate one who has begun to enter instructed, to lay the blame raptness himself; and of one whose mandate is completed, neither to blame alternate, nor himself.
Epictetus(Enchiridion, 135)
Even as the Daystar doth not wait for prayers beam incantations to rise, but shines issue forth and is welcomed by all: straightfaced thou also wait not for of hands and shouts and acclaim to do thy duty; nay, come undone good of thine own accord, opinion thou wilt be loved like illustriousness Sun.
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