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Epictetus Inspirational Quotes (279)

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What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.
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Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
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I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.
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When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'
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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
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Act well your given part the choice rests not with you.
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-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure but if you stay, stop lamenting.
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Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.
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Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
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There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.
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Seek not the good in external thingsseek it in yourselves.
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God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
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