Epictetus Quotes - Page 4

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• Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

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  Life, Children, Deeds

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• All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

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  Philosophy, Lying, Reality

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• Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.

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  Goal, Desire, Body

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• Act your part with honor.

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  Honor

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• Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

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  Changed, Knows

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• The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

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  Use, Littles, Foolish

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• Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

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  Motivational, Leadership, Draws

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• You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

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  Life, Philosophical, Soul

  Epictetus (1925). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

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  Inspirational, Men, Religion

  "Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion".

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• No man is free who is not master of himself.

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  Motivational, Self Esteem, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.125, Lulu.com

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• Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

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  Life, Inspiration, Men

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• In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

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  Lying, People, Trying

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• No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

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  Life, Finding Yourself, Matter

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• The best place to get help is from yourself.

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  Helping, Best Place

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• Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

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  Inspirational, Men, Circumstances

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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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  Life, Attitude, Accepting

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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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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  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

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• What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

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  Learning, Forgotten, Pleasure

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• Ruin and recovering are both from within.

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  Ruins, Recovering

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• In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

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  Jobs, Two, Choices

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• A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

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  Anchors, Ships, Should

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• All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

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  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

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  Communication, Athlete, People

  Epictetus (1925). “The Discourses as reported by Arrian: the Manual, and fragments”

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• Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Trying Something New

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• Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

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  Philosophical, Silence, Quiet

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