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Way Quotes by Epictetus
- All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that…
- What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
- When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent…
- What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that…
- Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
- One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
- It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily…
- If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a…
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all…
- 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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