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Epictetus Quotes and Quotations
 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. - Epictetus | Ability and Achievement Quotes  Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater. - Epictetus | Ability and Achievement Quotes There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus | Happiness Quotes All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. - Epictetus | Philosophy Quotes Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement. - Epictetus | Philosophy Quotes Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus | Silence Quotes First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. - Epictetus | Speakers and Speeches Quotes If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. - Epictetus | Writers and Writing Quotes The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus | Happiness Quotes There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus | Happiness Quotes The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus | Happiness Quotes Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace. - Epictetus | Acceptance Quotes There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus | Acceptance Quotes He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has. - Epictetus | Forgiveness Quotes Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. - Epictetus | Forgiveness Quotes No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus | Self-Control Quotes Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire. - Epictetus | Self-Control Quotes Ruin and recovery are both from within. - Epictetus | Self-Reliance Quotes The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus | Self-Reliance Quotes God has entrusted me with myself. - Epictetus | Self-Reliance Quotes First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus | Simplicity Quotes 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. - Epictetus | One Day Quotes Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. - Epictetus | One Day Quotes No great thing 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. - Epictetus | Difficult Days Quotes If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened. - Epictetus | Positive Quotes Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. - Epictetus | Right Quotes First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus | Goals Quotes It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. - Epictetus | Anxiety about the Future Quotes So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games. - Epictetus | Courage Quotes Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater. - Epictetus | Time Quotes No great thing is created suddenly. - Epictetus | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes Difficulties are things that show what men are. - Epictetus | Adversity Quotes We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things. - Epictetus | Events Quotes Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things. - Epictetus | Events Quotes On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use. - Epictetus | Events Quotes All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. - Epictetus | Appetite Quotes He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk. - Epictetus | Drinking Quotes Bear and forbear. - Epictetus | Forgiveness Quotes There is nothing good or evil save in the will. - Epictetus | Will Quotes So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games. - Epictetus | Crisis Quotes 
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