Quotes By Epictetus
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Epictetus
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.
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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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.
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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.
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Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Epictetus
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
Epictetus