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Epictetus Quotes - Page 12

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What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

Freedom, Men, Restraint

Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.345

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Being Yourself, Issues, Doe

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Business, Philosophy, Learning

"Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 17,

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

Purple, Complaining, Slave

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Food, Cooking, Silent

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Wise, Patience, Philosophical

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Food, Passion, Cooking

Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

Life, Thinking, Bigger

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Purple, White, Long

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Truth, Soul, Deprived

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.79

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

Men, Casting Off, Body

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

Taken, Judgement, Wells

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

Sweet, Thee, Customs

Epictetus (2015). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, p.82, Booklassic

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

People, Mad, Wish

Epictetus (1925). “Discourses”

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

Thank You, Cheating, Brother

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

Life, Thinking, Events

Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.

Failure, Fall, Failing

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.97

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

Mind, Events, Viewpoints

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Grief, Animal, Men

Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Courier Corporation

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

Purpose, Use, World

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

Sacrifice, Two, Giving

Epictetus (2017). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

Ideas, Imagination, Duration

"Epictetus his morals: with Simplicius his comment".

As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.

Running, Hurt, Feet

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

Fear, Poverty, Should

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

Men, Thinking, Blame

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