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Rather Quotes by Epictetus
- Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear…
- What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
- 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…
- By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
- Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers,…
- 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…
- A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him…
- We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say…
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