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Shows Quotes by Epictetus
- Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring…
- To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
- 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…
- Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
- We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Difficulty shows what men are.
- 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…
- It is difficulties that show what men are.
- Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be…
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