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«He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.»
«Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not»
Author: Epictetus
«If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.»
«Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others. If he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.»
«A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.»
«It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.»
Author: Epictetus
«Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another s.»
Author: Epictetus
«Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.»
Author: Epictetus
«You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.»
«It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking»
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