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> [Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/avoid-banquets-which-are-given-by-strangers-an-ignorant-persons-but/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

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> [Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/remember-that-you-ought-to-behave-in-life-as-you-would-at-a-banquet/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

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## More by Epictetus

> [“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/we-are-at-the-mercy-of-whoever-wields-authority-over-the-things-we/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/practice-yourself-for-heaven-s-sake-in-little-things-and-then-proceed/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/do-not-laugh-much-or-often-or-unrestrainedly/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/when-men-are-unhappy-they-do-not-imagine-they-can-ever-cease-to-be-so/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/we-are-not-disturbed-by-what-happens-to-us-but-by-our-thoughts-about/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/don-t-be-prideful-with-any-excellence-that-is-not-your-own/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/you-know-yourself-what-you-are-worth-in-your-own-eyes-and-at-what/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/crows-pick-out-the-eyes-of-the-dead-when-the-dead-have-no-longer-need/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/as-a-man-casting-off-worn-out-garments-taketh-new-ones-so-the-dweller/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/if-you-would-improve-submit-to-be-considered-wihout-sense-and-foolish/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/for-it-is-not-death-or-pain-that-is-to-be-feared-but-the-fear-of-pain/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/what-else-can-i-do-a-lame-old-man-but-sing-hymns-to-god-if-i-were-a/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/people-are-disturbed-not-by-things-but-by-the-view-they-take-of-them-2/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/small-minded-people-blame-others-average-people-blame-themselves-the/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

> [All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/all-philosophy-lies-in-two-words-sustain-and-abstain/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

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