Epictetus Quotes

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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If you wish to be a writer, write.

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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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

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God has entrusted me with myself.

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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.

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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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

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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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Only the educated are free.

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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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All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

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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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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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