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Epictetus Inspirational Quotes (279)

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It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
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When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.
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Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.
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It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.
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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
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Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror but it is not accomplished without sweat.
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
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Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
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