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Epictetus Inspirational Quotes (279)

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He is free who lives as he wishes to live who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
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It is your own convictions which compels you that is, choice compels choice.
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty
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Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
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If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.
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If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
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O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
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What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
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To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
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If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.
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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
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