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First Quotes by Epictetus
- If you would be good, first believe you are bad.
- If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At…
- In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with…
- First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
- It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --…
- If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a…
- If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- 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,…
- So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have…
- What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn…
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