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Others 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…
- It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We…
- 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…
- Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none…
- Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these…
- We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
- There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.
- 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…
- If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both…
- Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
- When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the…
- Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame…
- It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --…
- An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has…
- 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…
- Do not try to seem wise to others.
- Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
- Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
- 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…
- If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know…
- Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
- Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak
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