Given Men Quotes by Epictetus

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Epictetus has 365 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
• It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
• Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
• A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
• When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of…
• Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
• Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt…
• Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does…

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