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Instead 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…
- When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent…
- Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.'…
- Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
- Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life…
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