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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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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.
Epictetus
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Epictetus
What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
Epictetus
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.
Epictetus
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.
Epictetus
In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
Epictetus
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
Epictetus
The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
Epictetus
Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
Epictetus
Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
Epictetus
As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
Epictetus
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
-….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.
Epictetus
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.
Epictetus
It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
Epictetus
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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