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Epictetus Quotes

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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things  (Epictetus Quotes) Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words  (Epictetus Quotes) The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness  (Epictetus Quotes) Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them  (Epictetus Quotes) First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do  (Epictetus Quotes) If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it  (Epictetus Quotes) If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible  (Epictetus Quotes) It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting  (Epictetus Quotes) Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?  (Epictetus Quotes) One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent  (Epictetus Quotes) The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests  (Epictetus Quotes) The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing  (Epictetus Quotes) Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit  (Epictetus Quotes) Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world  (Epictetus Quotes) You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself  (Epictetus Quotes) To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported  (Epictetus Quotes) In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles  (Epictetus Quotes) It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?  (Epictetus Quotes) If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?  (Epictetus Quotes) Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else  (Epictetus Quotes) Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind  (Epictetus Quotes) Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak  (Epictetus Quotes) Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!  (Epictetus Quotes) If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance  (Epictetus Quotes) Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?  (Epictetus Quotes) What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion  (Epictetus Quotes) The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases  (Epictetus Quotes) I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day  (Epictetus Quotes) No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated  (Epictetus Quotes) What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are  (Epictetus Quotes)
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