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Doe Quotes by Epictetus
- He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to…
- 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…
- Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this…
- Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.
- Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other…
- Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything…
- When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes…
- Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do…
- The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
- Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of…
- A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear…
- Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For…
- He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
- You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
- I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does…
- A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him…
- Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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