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Wise Quotes by Epictetus
- 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…
- An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has…
- He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Do not try to seem wise to others.
- Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or…
- When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied,…
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