Epictetus Quotes

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.

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To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

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No man is free who is not master of himself.

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

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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

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

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.