Epictetus Quotes
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The anger of an ape-the threat of a flatterer:-these deserve equal regard.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
[Happiness]
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The first business of a philosopher is, to part with self-conceit.
[Philosophy]
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The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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The man who is not satisfied with little will be satisfied with nothing.
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The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
[Patience]
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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There is but one way to tranquillity of mind and happiness; let this, therefore, be always ready at hand with thee, both when thou wakest early in the morning, and all the day long, and when thou goest late to sleep, to account no external things thine own, but commit all these to God.
[Happiness]
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
[Will]
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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.
[Acceptance]
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Think of God more often than thou breathest.
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
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To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
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