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Epictetus Inspirational Quotes (279)

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A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.
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By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own
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What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
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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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As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
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Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
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What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
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Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Act your part with honor.
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
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Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.
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Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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