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Persons Quotes by Epictetus
- Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
- It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify…
- Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
- In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate…
- Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed,…
- No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
- 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…
- If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up…
- 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…
- If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if…
- Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of…
- If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I…
- Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
- Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.…
- Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
- Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is…
- If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He…
- To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals,…
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