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Ill Quotes by Epictetus
- 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…
- It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun…
- It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose…
- 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…
- A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one…
- If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He…
- The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
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