When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Quote by Epictetus
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When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Epictetus Quotes
- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
- We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
- If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
- God has entrusted me with myself.
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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