Epictetus Quotes

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• When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this…
• Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
• All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
• If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not…
• A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
• If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me…
• He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
• Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
• Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
• When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do…
• What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
• When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that…
• You lose only the things you have
• It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason
• In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any…
• Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
• Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
• Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
• Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

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