Epictetus Quotes

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
– Epictetus

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Show your intelligence by listening as twice as you can talk, simply because we have two ears and one tongue.
– Epictetus

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
– Epictetus

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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
– Epictetus

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
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All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
– Epictetus

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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
– Epictetus

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
– Epictetus

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Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Only the educated are free.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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