Quotes By Epictetus
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.
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
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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.
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When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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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.
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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.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
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