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Love Sayings by Epictetus
- Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
- I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
- To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
- Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
- Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
- Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
- The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.
- Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
- In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it
- You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
- If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.
- If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Do not try to seem wise to others.
- He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
- Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
- Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
- Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.
- It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus
- We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
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