Epictetus quotes - page 10

True instruction is this: -to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. (Epictetus)
You are impatient and hard to please. View quote
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They swear to hold no other dearer than Cæsar: you, to hold our true selves dearer than all else beside. View quote
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This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned. View quote
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Habits and faculties are necessarily affected by the corresponding acts. View quote
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Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it. View quote
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What prison?-Where he is already: for he is there against his will; and wherever a man is against his will, that to him is a prison. View quote
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For I am not Eternity, but a human being-a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day. I must come like the hour, and like the hour must pass! View quote
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He has disposed that there should be. View quote
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If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles. View quote
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And when he has diligently observed all, he must come back with a true report, not terrified into announcing them to be foes that are no foes, nor otherwise perturbed or confounded by the things of sense. (Epictetus)
Ask me, if you choose, if a Cynic shall engage in the administration of a state. View quote
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I apply to you to come and hear that you are in evil case; that what deserves your attention most is the last thing to gain it; that you know not good from evil, and are. View quote
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Others may fence themselves with walls and houses. View quote
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. View quote
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Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand: Conduct me, Jove, and you, O Destiny, Wherever your decrees have fixed my station. ~ Cleanthes. I follow cheerfully; and, did I not, Wicked and wretched, I must follow still Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven. ~ Euripides, Frag. 965. View quote
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It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring the other only convicts them. View quote
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. View quote
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If anyone tells you a person speaks ill of you, do not make excuse about what is said but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults else he would not have mentioned these alone.' View quote
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Envy is the adversary of the fortunate. View quote
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Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others. If he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave. (Epictetus)
What will the world be quite overturned when you die. View quote
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Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to god. View quote
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The Beginning of Philosophy...is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. View quote
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In order to please others, we loose our hold on our lifes purpose. View quote
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