Quotes from Epictetus

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  Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.View Quote →
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  When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.View Quote →
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  Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.View Quote →
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  It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.View Quote →
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  It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.View Quote →
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  If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.View Quote →
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  First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.View Quote →
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  He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.EpictetusView Quote →
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  Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.EpictetusView Quote →
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  The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.EpictetusView Quote →
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  Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.EpictetusView Quote →
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  There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.EpictetusView Quote →
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  The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.EpictetusView Quote →
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  It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.EpictetusView Quote →
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  Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.EpictetusView Quote →
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  One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.EpictetusView Quote →
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  The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.View Quote →
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  No man is free who is not master of himself.EpictetusView Quote →
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  One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.EpictetusView Quote →
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  Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.EpictetusView Quote →
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  He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.EpictetusView Quote →
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  It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.EpictetusView Quote →
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  Freedom is the right to live as we wish.EpictetusView Quote →
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  If you wish to be a writer, write.EpictetusView Quote →
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  Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.EpictetusView Quote →