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You Quotes by Epictetus
- Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- If you wish to be a writer, write.
- Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
- Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
- If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
- Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
- Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
- Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
- You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig,…
- Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is…
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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