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Book: Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses
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  1. Epictetus _ Enchiridion and Selections

    To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.
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  2. Epictetus _ Enchiridion and Selections

    He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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  3. Epictetus _ Enchiridion and Selections

    Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.
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  4. Epictetus _ Enchiridion and Selections

    When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?
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  5. Epictetus _ Enchiridion and Selections

    The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit {advantage} nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.
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  6. Epictetus _ Enchiridion and Selections

    As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.
    book-quotehumblenesssun

  7. Epictetus _ Enchiridion and Selections

    A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.
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  8. Epictetus _ Enchiridion and Selections

    Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things.
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  9. Epictetus _ Enchiridion and Selections

    If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself.
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