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• Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

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  Swans, Nightingales

  Epictetus (1877). “Selections from Epictetus”, p.21

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• If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

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  Mind, Body, Advertising

  Epictetus (2015). “The Enchiridion”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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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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  Soul, Judgment, Purification

  "The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings".

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• If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

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  Believe, Wish, Firsts

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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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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  Philosophy, Men, Discovery

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• It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

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  Men, Views, Mind

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• So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

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  Wine, Exercise, Dust

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• Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

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  Death, Eye, Dying

  "The Handbook of Epictetus".

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• To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

  Epictetus

  Mean, Aging

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.490

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• It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

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  Thinking, Pay The Price, Choices

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• If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

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  Heart, Rose, Crowns

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.95

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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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  Summer, Winter, Opposites

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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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  Done, Faults, Opinion

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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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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  Taken, Judgment, Wells

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• To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

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  Unendurable, Irrational, Rational

  Epictetus (1926). “Discourses”

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• No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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  Life, Patience, Time

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

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  Men, Oxford, Opinion

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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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  Practice, Habitual, Ifs

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 18,

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• If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

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  Mind, Principles, Down And

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.109, Enhanced Media Publishing

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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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  Death, Evil, Use

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

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• Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

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  Philosophical, Passion, Thee

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• Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."

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  Feet, Waiting, Trying

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 18,

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• Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

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  Gratitude, Two, May

  Epictetus (2015). “The Enchiridion”, Xist Publishing

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• Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

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  Pain, Pleasure

  Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

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  Strength, Character, Might

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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