Tag: Epictetus
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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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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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