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Epictetus Quotes - Page 6

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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Inspirational, Thinking, People

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Wish, Events, Wells

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Liars, Lying, World

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Friends, Adversity, Prosperity

Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.54, Courier Corporation

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

Safety, Use, Aviation

Epictetus (2009). “The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus”, p.220, The Floating Press

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

Independent, Practice, Indifference

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

Character, Men, Long

Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

Flower, Answers, Want

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.214, Enhanced Media Publishing

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.

Opportunity, Riding, Doe

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Wish, Flow, Strive

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Disturbed

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

Communication, Philosophical, Jogging

Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.115

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Grief, Spirit, Hunger

Epictetus, Thomas William Hazen Rolleston (189?). “The Teaching of Epictetus: Being the Encheiridion of Epictetus with Selections from the Dissertations and Fragments”, p.84, Library of Alexandria

It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Motivational, Kindness, People

Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.

Character, Thinking, Reality

Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

Brother, Kindness, Two

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Motivational, Desire, Fleeting

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Silly, Reflection, Achievement

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

Mind, Trying, Events

Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.

Triumph, Merit, Concerned

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Character, Role Models, Follow Your Heart

Only the educated are free.

Life, Education, Teacher

Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.65, Courier Corporation

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

Knows, Linked, Who You Are

Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.

Recovery, Fighting, Over You

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.354

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Letting Go, Spiritual, Thinking

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