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One Quotes by Epictetus
- Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no…
- Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
- What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
- It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you…
- The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
- 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…
- Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my…
- Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
- Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier,…
- Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.
- Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
- Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only…
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
- Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
- Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
- The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right…
- If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
- Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long,…
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