Epictetus Quotes about Lying

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

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

Epictetus

Love, True Friend, Lying

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Epictetus

Life, Lying, Freedom And Happiness

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Epictetus

Lying, Fall, Self

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

Epictetus

Lying, People, Trying

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Epictetus

Philosophy, Lying, Reality

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

Epictetus

Liars, Lying, World

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

Epictetus

Motivational, Business, Lying

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.70

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

Epictetus

Lying, Stupid, Men

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.70