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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Topic: Abstinence
Source: None
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Topic: Ambition
Source: None
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
Topic: Body
Source: None
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Topic: Books and Reading
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Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.
Topic: Education
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Only the educated are free.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
Topic: Goodness
Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
Topic: Listening
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Topic: Negativity
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
Topic: Perception
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Topic: Perfection
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No man is free who is not a master of himself.
Topic: Perspective
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The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own
Weakness and inability in necessary things.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: Discourses (bk. II, ch. XI, st. 1)
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: None
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Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Discourses (ch. XXI)
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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I talk of cheese, you of chalk.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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Man is to man a god or a wolf.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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Prevention is better than cure.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
Topic: Relationships
Source: None
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Topic: Relationships
Source: None
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