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Epictetus Quotes
«It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.»
Author: Epictetus
«The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other»
«The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.»
«God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil»
«Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison»
Author: Epictetus
«No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.»
«He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for the which he has»
«A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...»
«A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.»
Author: Epictetus