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Life Sayings by Epictetus
- As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
- No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
- Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"
- Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They…
- Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on…
- 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…
- Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
- When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes…
- In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
- Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your…
- To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
- A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Only the educated are free.
- To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse…
- It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- No man is free who is not master of himself.
- We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
- 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,…
- Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
- Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
- 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…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle