| 37 Famous Quotes by Epictetus
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“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
Communication Quotes |
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“No great thing is created suddenly.”
Creativity Quotes |
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“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
Difficulty Quotes |
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“It is difficulties that show what men are”
Difficulty Quotes |
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“Only the educated are free.”
Education Quotes |
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“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well”
Events Quotes |
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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.”
Happiness Quotes |
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“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
Men Quotes |
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“Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak”
Nature Quotes |
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“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Power Quotes |
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“Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Discourses (ch. XXI)
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“If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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“I talk of cheese, you of chalk.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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“Man is to man a god or a wolf.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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“Not even the gods can withstand necessity.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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“Prevention is better than cure.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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“If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.”
Goodness Quotes Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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“The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own
Weakness and inability in necessary things.”
Philosophy Quotes Source: Discourses (bk. II, ch. XI, st. 1)
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“All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.”
Abstinence Quotes |
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“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Ambition Quotes |
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“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
Listening Quotes |
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“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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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.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.”
All about love Quotes |
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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.”
Body Quotes |
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