Once you have fixed on you governing principles, you must hold them as laws that you cannot transgress. Pay no heed to what is said of you for it is beyond your control.
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Citations by Epictetus
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
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When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; but God is within, and your genius is within, and what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
When a man prides himself on being able to understand and interpret a difficult book, say to yourself: If the book had been well written this man would have nothing on which to pride himself.
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Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
Death has no terror; only a Death of shame!
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
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The beginning of philosophy is to know the condition of one's own mind. If a man recognises that this is in a weakly state, he will not then want to apply it to questions of the greatest moment. As it is, men who are not fit to swallow even a morsel, buy whole treatises and try to devour them. Accordingly they either vomit them up again, or suffer from indigestion, whence come gripings, fluxions, and fevers. Whereas they should have stopped to consider their capacity.
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Appear to know only this, never to fail nor fall.
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Dare to look up to God and say: "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt. I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee. Lead me whither Thou wilt. Clothe me in whatever dress Thou wilt."
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