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Nor Quotes by Epictetus
- Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
- He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to…
- In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any…
- Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this…
- It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun…
- Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses,…
- It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose…
- When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation…
- A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one…
- 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…
- Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself…
- Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or…
- These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection…
- Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.
- What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part;…
- A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a singe hope.
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