Epictetus

Philosopher

Epictetus was a Stoic philosopher known for his teachings on control and personal freedom, significantly influencing modern thought on resilience.

Born
January 1, 0550
Died
January 1, 1350
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467
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#14

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"Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: -- I move not without Thy knowledge!"

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"All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it."

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"And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?"

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"Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?"

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"If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee."

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"There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose."

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"To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred."

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"Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?"

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"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening."

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"Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul."

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"Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink."

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"Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none."

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"The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference."

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"Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed)."

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"To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man."

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"As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new."

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