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.
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They swear to hold no other dearer than Cæsar: you, to hold our true selves dearer than all else beside.
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This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned.
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Habits and faculties are necessarily affected by the corresponding acts.
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Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.
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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.
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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!
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He has disposed that there should be.
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If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles.
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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.
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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.
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Others may fence themselves with walls and houses.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds.
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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.
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It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring the other only convicts them.
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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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.'
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Envy is the adversary of the fortunate.
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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.
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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.
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The Beginning of Philosophy...is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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In order to please others, we loose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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