What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.
EpictetusCaretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
EpictetusIf anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
EpictetusStichwörter: history philosophy humility
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EpictetusStichwörter: life happiness freedom philosophy goal control
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
EpictetusStichwörter: philosophy religion reincarnation
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
EpictetusStichwörter: life happiness death choices positivity
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EpictetusIt is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.
EpictetusStichwörter: inspirational attitude
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EpictetusNature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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