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Epictetus Inspirational Quotes (279)

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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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If you wish to be a writer, write.
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Think of God more often than thou breathest.
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When our friends are present we ought to treat them well and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
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Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
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Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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I am not eternity, but a man a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.
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These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
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Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
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When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.
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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
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I am always content with what happens for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
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