Tag: Epictetus

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

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There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.

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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

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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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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing

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