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Epictetus Quotes


If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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If you wish to be a writer, write.

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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

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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?

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No great thing is created suddenly.

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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No man is free who is not master of himself.

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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.

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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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