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Wells 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…
- Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my…
- Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the…
- Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a…
- When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the…
- 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,…
- 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.
- Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
- 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,…
- Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself…
- Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
- If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you…
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