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Epictetus Inspirational Quotes (279)

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Silence is safer than speech.
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If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
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It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it you can either accept it or resent it.
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
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You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
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Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
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You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
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Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
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If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be or they neither are, nor appear to be or they are, and do not appear to be or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.
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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control
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Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.
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Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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