leave out the gratitude.”
EPICTETUS – “Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.”
EPICTETUS – “The necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies.”
EPICTETUS –“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
EPICTETUS –“God has entrusted me with myself.”
EPICTETUS –“If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrongdoing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.”
EPICTETUS –“If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: ‘I used to be, angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day’. When you, reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.”
EPICTETUS –“Remember that you are an actor in a play, and the Playwright chooses the manner of it… Your business is to act the character that is given to you and act it well; the choice of the cast is Another’s.”
EPICTETUS –“So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And i too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a
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