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Since it is reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
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Quotes by Epictetus
For what constitutes a child? Ignorance. What constitutes a child? Want of instruction; for they are our equals so far as their degree of knowledge permits.
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Since then every one must deal with each thing according to the view which he forms about it, those few who hold that they are born for fidelity, modesty, and unerring sureness in dealing with the things of sense, never conceive aught base or ignoble of themselves: but the multitude the contrary.
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
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In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
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Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.
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No man can rob us of our Will, no man can lord it over that!
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True instruction is this: to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.
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If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Man be true, what remains for men to do but as Socrates did; never, when asked one's country, to answer, 'I am an Athenian or a Corinthian, ' but 'I am a citizen of the world. '
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It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word, on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.
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