How To Use Epictetus In A Sentence

  • Show your intelligence by listening as twice as you can talk, simply because we have two ears and one tongue. Epictetus 
  • Epictetus also knows the Master Argument from Megarian philosophy Epictetus
  • Epictetus: optime feceris si ea fugeris quae in alio reprehendis. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. Epictetus 
  • Epictetus' magic wand can make poverty of no account.
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  • Don't live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature. Epictetus 
  • The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus 
  • Show your intelligence by listening as twice as you can talk, simply because we have two ears and one tongue. Epictetus 
  • If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. Epictetus 
  • He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. Epictetus 
  • It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus 
  • Show your intelligence by listening as twice as you can talk, simply because we have two ears and one tongue. Epictetus 
  • Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. Epictetus 
  • If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. Epictetus 
  • Although he writes less in the tradition of Boehme than that of Epictetus and Seneca, Schopenhauer echoes The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
  • What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Epictetus 
  • Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. Epictetus 
  • Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. Epictetus 
  • Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. Epictetus 
  • What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Epictetus 
  • If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. Epictetus 
  • No great thing is created suddenly. Epictetus 
  • This however is a non-technical approach to logic, grounded in essentials, in contrast to the sterile conundrums and oversubtle analyses enjoyed by some of Epictetus 'contemporaries. Epictetus
  • The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus 
  • [1427] cf. Epictetus, Ench.i. eph 'hemin men hupolepsis, horme, orexis, ekklisis, kai heni logo hosa hemetera erga. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
  • Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. Epictetus 
  • In Epictetus there are two exercises: sophistic and ethical.
  • Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. Epictetus 
  • All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. Epictetus 
  • Show your intelligence by listening as twice as you can talk, simply because we have two ears and one tongue. Epictetus 
  • Difficulty shows what men are. Epictetus 
  • No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus 
  • There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. Epictetus 
  • What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Epictetus 
  • Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. Epictetus 
  • Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. Epictetus 
  • Only the educated are free. Epictetus 
  • No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus 
  • He was an ardent student of the classics, especially of Plato, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, a devotee of liberty of thought, and an amateur of art.
  • Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. Epictetus 

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