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Most Quotes by Epictetus
- We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not;…
- And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when…
- It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --…
- Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
- Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
- Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
- One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
- The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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