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Epictetus Quote: “There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.”
Epictetus Quote: “Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.”
Epictetus Quote: “In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.”
Epictetus Quote: “Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.”
Epictetus Quote: “If you must be affected by other people’s misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt. Drop this readiness to hate and take offence.”
Epictetus Quote: “You should be especially careful when associating with one of your former friends or acquaintances not to sink to their level; otherwise you will lose yourself. If you are troubled by the idea that ‘He’ll think I’m boring and won’t treat me the way he used to,’ remember that everything comes at a price. It isn’t possible to change your behavior and still be the same person you were before.”
Epictetus Quote: “There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings – arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.”
Epictetus Quote: “The gods do not exists, and even if they exist they do not trouble themselves about people, and we have nothing in common with them. The piety and devotion to the gods that the majority of people invoke is a lie devised by swindlers and con men and, if you can believe it, by legislators, to keep criminals in line by putting the fear of God into them.”
Epictetus Quote: “Stop honouring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things.”
Epictetus Quote: “What would Heracles have been if he had said, “How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?” What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.”
Epictetus Quote: “Wherefore it is a shame for man to begin and to leave off where the brutes do. Rather he should begin there, and leave off where Nature leaves off in us: and that is at contemplation, and understanding, and a manner of life that is in harmony with herself. See then that ye die not without being spectators of these things.”
Epictetus Quote: “If you meet temptation, use self-control; if you meet pain, use fortitude; if you meet revulsion, use patience.”
Epictetus Quote: “Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it. Pay no attention to whatever people might say; this no longer should influence you.”
Epictetus Quote: “Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or – won.”
Epictetus Quote: “Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.”
Epictetus Quote: “I must die; so must I die groaning too?”
Epictetus Quote: “If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defense against what was said, but answer, “He surely knows not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!”
Epictetus Quote: “Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? – A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.”
Epictetus Quote: “They may kill me, but they cannot hurt me. – Socrates.”
Epictetus Quote: “If you pin your hopes on things outside your control, taking upon yourself things which rightfully belong to others, you are liable to stumble, fall, suffer, and blame both gods and men. But if you focus your attention only on what is truly your own concern, and leave to others what concerns them, then you will be in charge of your interior life. No one will be able to harm or hinder you. You will blame no one, and have no enemies.”
Epictetus Quote: “To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.”
Epictetus Quote: “You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.”
Epictetus Quote: “As long as you honour material things, direct your anger at yourself rather than the thief or adulterer.”
Epictetus Quote: “Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.”
Epictetus Quote: “What will the world be quite overturned when you die?”
Epictetus Quote: “We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.”
Epictetus Quote: “Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.”
Epictetus Quote: “Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men’s opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.”
Epictetus Quote: “If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.”
Epictetus Quote: “Who are these people whose admiration you seek? Aren’t they the ones you are used to describing as mad? Well, then, is that what you want – to be admired by lunatics?”
Epictetus Quote: “Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.”
Epictetus Quote: “Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.”
Epictetus Quote: “Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!”
Epictetus Quote: “For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.”
Epictetus Quote: “Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen that you will have peace.”
Epictetus Quote: “Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.”
Epictetus Quote: “For what else are tragedies but the ordeals of people who have come to value externals, tricked out in tragic verse?”
Epictetus Quote: “If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.”
Epictetus Quote: “What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard? – It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.”
Epictetus Quote: “If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.”
Epictetus Quote: “Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.”
Epictetus Quote: “Remember from now on whenever something tends to make you unhappy, draw on this principle: ‘This is no misfortune; but bearing with it bravely is a blessing.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is better to starve to death in a calm and confident state of mind than to live anxiously amidst abundance. And.”
Epictetus Quote: “For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.”
Epictetus Quote: “Yes, but my nose is running.’ Then what do you have hands for, you slave?”
Epictetus Quote: “These reasonings do not cohere: I am richer than you, therefore I am better than you; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better than you. On the contrary these rather cohere, I am richer than you, therefore my possessions are greater than yours: I am more eloquent than you, therefore my speech is superior to yours. But you are neither possession nor speech.”
Epictetus Quote: “Finally, when he crowns it off by becoming a senator, then he becomes a slave in fine company, then he experiences the poshest and most prestigious form of enslavement.”
Epictetus Quote: “In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.”
Epictetus Quote: “Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.”
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