Epictetus Quotes

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Motivational, Best, Keep

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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Happiness, Power, Beyond

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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Hope, Rich, Rather

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Happens, Matters, React

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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Anger, Yourself, Forget

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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Two, Speak, Listen

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Wise, Grieve, Rejoices

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Health, Good, Heart

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Stupid, Thought, Foolish

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Communication, Learn, Speak

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
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All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Heaven, Religions, Tolerated

Only the educated are free.
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Motivational, Free, Educated

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Finance, Great, Few

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

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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View, Disturbed

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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Education, Others, Nor

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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Find, Wish, Wishes

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Yourself, True, Evil

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
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Remember, Brother, Thy

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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Happiness, Live, Philosophy

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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Imagination, Yourself, Character

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Power, Best, Rest

If you wish to be a writer, write.
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Wish, Write, Writer

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 55

Died: 135

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