Author Topic: ~ Epictetus Quotes ~ (Read 3296 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:19:54 AM »

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:20:38 AM »

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:21:26 AM »

Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things; and thence proceed to greater.

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:22:17 AM »

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:23:03 AM »

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:23:58 AM »

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:24:46 AM »

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you whose presence calls forth your best.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:25:35 AM »

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:26:27 AM »

Nature has given to men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:27:17 AM »

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:28:27 AM »

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:29:18 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:30:07 AM »

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:30:54 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:31:38 AM »

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

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