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Epictetus Quotes - Page 18

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What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Ego, World, Narcissism

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.220

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Men, Blame, Instruction

Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.

Evident

Epictetus (1944). “Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion”

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

People, Judgment

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Adversity, Men, Ease

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.168

In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.

Life, Hate, Men

Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.47, BookCaps Study Guides

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

Suffering, Thyself

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

Men, Long, Doe

Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.63, BookCaps Study Guides

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

Eye, Soul, Crow

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.124, Lulu.com

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

Wicked, Enmity, Ought

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.430

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

Men, Unhappy, Faults

Epictetus (1900). “Discourses ...”

When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

Principles, Faults, Blame

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

Use, Matter, Indifference

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Legs, May, Free Will

If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

Succeed, Would Be, Strive

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

Ignorant, Attention, Stranger

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Philosophical, Evil, Religion

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.221

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

Character, Men, Lovers

Epictetus (1890). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

Art, Faculty, Certain

Epictetus (1944). “Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion”

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

Life, Play, Actors

Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

Progress, Blame, Remember

Epictetus (1916). “The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings”

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

Taught, Theory, Draws

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.74

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Reality, Habit, Pleasant

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

Philosophy, Weakness, Inability

"Discourses". Book by Epictetus, Book II. Ch, XI. St. 1,

It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.

Opinion, Trouble

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