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Good Quotes by Epictetus
- Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
- If you would be good, first believe you are bad.
- Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
- 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…
- What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to…
- It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
- The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
- If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all…
- Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to…
- If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
- If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
- There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
- Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
- Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait…
- If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity…
- Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
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