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Should Quotes by Epictetus
- If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me…
- Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
- 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…
- Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can…
- Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you…
- We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
- It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating,…
- Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power…
- Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.
- It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
- It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
- Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to…
- 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,…
- A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.
- 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…
- Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For…
- Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.'…
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
- We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
- You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various…
- Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
- God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall…
- 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…
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- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
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- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
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