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Love Quotes by Epictetus
- 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.
- God has entrusted me with myself.
- Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
- Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
- Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
- He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
- Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
- You lose only the things you have
- You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
- Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
- What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things
- Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
- Nothing great comes into being all at once.
- It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
- It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
- Confident because of our caution
- To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
- Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something…
- Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do
- Ruin and recovering are both from within.
- Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
- There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.
- To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in…
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