"It is not so much what happens to……" — Epictetus
"It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus"
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353 Quotes by Epictetus
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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most…
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The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they…
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You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
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Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.
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Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with…
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To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever…
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There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power…
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Only the educated are free. --Epictetus
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