Epictetus Quotes

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Epictetus

Truth, Find, Victory

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom, Live, Nothing

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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Peace, Happiness, Whatever

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
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Impossible, Learn, Knows

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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Time, Tell, Desire

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
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Greatest, Please, Moderation

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Silence, Keep, Speak

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

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Words, Philosophy, Two

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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Life, Hope, Single

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
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Freedom, Desire, Full

God has entrusted me with myself.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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Great, Suddenly, Created

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
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Control, Thy, Passions

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
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Freedom, Live, Wish

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death, Fear, Pain

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Knows, Pass, Aside

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
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Themselves, Excellent, Desires

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
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Soul, Around, Carrying

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Reputation, Greater, Storms

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
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Tell, Easy, Show

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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Yourself, Adorn

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
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Good, Desire, Believing

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
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Life, Hope, Ship

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

Time, Great, Nothing

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 55

Died: 135

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