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Epictetus

Epictetus

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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

A child understands fear and the hurt and hate it brings.

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?

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

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