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We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
#Alone
#Credit
#Educated
#Free
#Say
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
#Laugh
#Much
#Often
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
- Epictetus
#Always
#Place
#Religion
#Treasure
#Will
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
#Easy
#Lies
#Lying
#Show
#Tell
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
- Epictetus
#Drunk
#Glasses
#He
#More
#Three
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
#Always
#Depend
#Never
#Will
#Yourself
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
#Difficult
#Effort
#Success
#Training
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
- Epictetus
#Happiness
#Peace
#Perfection
#Progress
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
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#Unhappy
#Wealth
#World
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
#Man
#Opinion
#Two
#Wise Man
#Wise
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.
- Epictetus
#Blossom
#Desire
#Fruit
#Me
#Time
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
#Angry
#Evil
#Habit
#Only
#Present
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
- Epictetus
#Begin
#Believing
#Desire
#Good
#Wicked
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
#He
#Insults
#Opinion
#Things
#Your
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
- Epictetus
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#Things
#Will
#Wish
#Your
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
#Brother
#He
#More
#Remember
#Thee
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
- Epictetus
#Evil
#Good
#Nothing
#Save
#Will
Silence is safer than speech.
- Epictetus
#Safer
#Silence
#Speech
#Than
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
#Greatest
#Moderation
#Please
#Pleasures
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus
#Endeavor
#Excel
#Should
#Things
#Those
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
#Evil
#Laugh
#Lie
#True
#Yourself
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
#Little Things
#Practice
#Sake
#Yourself
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
#Death
#Dreaded
#Fear
#Pain
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
- Epictetus
#Control
#Passions
#Take
#Thee
#Thy
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
#Find
#Invincible
#Truth
#Victory
#Will
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
#Freedom
#Live
#Right
#Wish
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- Epictetus
#Body
#Good
#Health
#Heart
#Looking
#Soul
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
#Anchor
#Brainy
#Hope
#Life
#Ship
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
#Anchor
#Hope
#Life
#Rest
#Ship
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- Epictetus
#Controlling
#Desire
#Enjoyment
#Freedom
#Full
God has entrusted me with myself.
- Epictetus
#Entrusted
#God
#Me
#Myself
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
#All Religions
#Man
#Own
#Religion
#Way
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
#Character
#Imagination
#Personality
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
#Better
#Careful
#Hope
#Rich
#Wealth
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
#Essence
#Happiness
#Live
#Man
#Possible
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
#Freedom
#Live
#Nothing
#Right
#Wish
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
#Created
#Great
#Suddenly
#Thing
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
- Epictetus
#Difficulties
#Person
#Show
#Things
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
#Lies
#Philosophy
#Sustain
#Two
#Words
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
#Dead
#Lost
#Never
#Return
#Wife
If you wish to be a writer, write.
- Epictetus
#Communication
#Wish
#Write
#Writer
#You
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
- Epictetus
#Keep
#Must
#Only
#Silence
#Speak
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
#Complete
#Education
#Others
#Own
#Want
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
#Anger
#Forget
#Man
#Will
#Yourself
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
#Around
#Carrying
#Corpse
#Little
#Soul
Nothing great 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.
- Epictetus
#Blossom
#Fruit
#Great
#Me
#Time
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
#Begin
#Impossible
#Knows
#Learn
#Which
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
#He
#Man
#Things
#Wise Man
#Wise
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
#First
#Say
#Then
#Would
#Yourself
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
- Epictetus
#Going
#He
#Man
#Pass
#World
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
#Accordingly
#First
#Know
#Who
#Yourself
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
#Foolish
#Nature
#Pleasures
#Wisdom
#Wise
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
#Disturbed
#Men
#Take
#Things
#View
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
#Difficulty
#Glory
#More
#Reputation
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
#Free
#Himself
#Man
#Master
#Who
Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus
#Educated
#Free
#Motivational
#Only
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
#Content
#Foolish
#Stupid
#Thought
#Want
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
#Best
#Company
#Key
#Motivational
#People
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
#Happens
#How
#Matters
#React
#Wisdom
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
#Best
#Happens
#Power
#Rest
#Your
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
#Beyond
#Happiness
#Power
#Way
#Will
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
#Few
#Finance
#Great
#Possessions
#Wealth
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
#Communication
#First
#Meaning
#Speak
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
#Communication
#Mouth
#Speak
#Twice
#Two
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
#Brainy
#Disturbed
#People
#Things
#View
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