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Epictetus. The most famous aphorisms

Archimedes, while he was bending over the writing tablets, was forcibly taken away by the slaves to rub his body with oil, but he continued to draw mathematical figures on his oiled body.
Patients are dissatisfied with the doctor when he does not prescribe anything to them, and think that he considers their situation hopeless. Why do we not do this in relation to the philosopher - we do not think. that he despairs of our correction if he does not give us any advice?
In life, meanwhile, we demand from the gods what they cannot give us, we demand, moreover, having received a lot from them.
You can find a son in a son-in-law, but whoever has a bad son-in-law has also lost his daughter.
In adversity a friend is known and an enemy exposed.
In nature, there is nothing really pleasant or unpleasant - it's all a matter of habit.
Grapes sprout three branches from themselves: the branch of pleasure, the branch of drunkenness and the branch of impudence.
Master your passions or they will master you.
I heal the soul, not the body: death is better than a shameful life.
Time cures fools of grief, smart ones - their mind.
If we are invited to dinner, we eat what we are served.
If you build not high buildings for your native city, but make its citizens taller, you will be its greatest benefactor: let high hearts live in low houses rather than low, petty souls nest in high buildings.
If you want to be good, first consider yourself evil.
If you want to live without knowing sorrow, consider the future past.
If you want to learn, be prepared to be considered a fool and a dumbass.
If you want to be spoken well of you, do not speak badly of others.
Life is short, but honest, always prefer life long, but shameful.
Envy is the enemy of the happy.
Know and remember that if a person is unhappy, then he himself is to blame, because God created all people for their happiness, and not for them to be unhappy.
Avoid the friendship of bad people and the enmity of good people.
When we were children, our parents entrusted us to an educator who vigilantly watched so that no harm would happen to us. We have grown up - and God has entrusted our innate conscience to protect us. Let us not treat this guard with contempt, otherwise God will be angry with us, and our own conscience will see us as its enemies.
When one young braggart said in the theater that he was smart, because he talked with many philosophers, Epictetus remarked to him: "Here, I have many rich acquaintances, but still I am not a rich man!"
When Pittacus asked Solon, who was silent at the table, why he did not speak - whether because he did not find a subject for conversation, or out of stupidity, he received the answer: "No fool can be silent at the table."
When the owner of the ship, Lampida, was asked what it was like to acquire wealth, he replied: "Great wealth is easy, but small money is very difficult."
When Epictetus was asked, "Which man is rich?" - he answered: "Satisfied with himself."
When, closing the door behind you, you are left alone in your house, do not say that you are alone: for you are not alone, God and your soul are with you.
Whoever is free in body and not free in soul is a slave, and, in turn, whoever is bound bodily, but free spiritually, is free.
It is better to live with one person of high soul and be calm and independent than to lead a miserable life in the company of many.
It is better to know how to practice virtue than to know how to describe it.
People are not tormented by things, but by ideas about them.
People are happy to find an excuse for their misdeeds, while philosophy teaches not to stretch out even a finger without thinking.
A ship does not rest on one anchor, life does not rest on hope alone.
Do not decorate the walls of your house with Euboean or Spartan marble - decorate the hearts of fellow citizens and their rulers with the fruits of Greek enlightenment: not stones or wood serve as the foundation of the state, but the mind of its citizens.
There is no one who, loving money, pleasure and fame, would also love people: only he who loves virtue loves them.
There is nothing easier to find a friend in happiness and nothing more difficult - in grief.
Nature gave people one language and two ears, so that we would listen to others more than speak ourselves.
A slave is one who does not know how to control himself.
The speech is bold, but incoherent - like a blunt sword.
With ordinary people, talk less about theories, and act according to them.
The most pleasant can become the most unpleasant, it is only necessary to overstep the limit.
Freedom is the independence of thought.
Ask yourself what do you want - wealth or happiness? If wealth - know that it is neither good nor in your hands, if happiness - be sure that it is both good and in your power: the first fate lends us only for a while, while being happy depends on ourselves.
Quarreling and arguing is generally impolite, but especially indecent - in conversations over a drink. After all, a drunkard still cannot convince a sober one, just as a sober person cannot persuade a drunkard, and where all persuasion is in vain, there is no need to use all your eloquence.
Try to leave behind you children better educated than rich: the hopes of the educated are more enviable than the rich ignoramuses.
Fate is a dark prison for the body and evil for the soul.
There is only one way to happiness - to stop worrying about things that are not subject to our will.
Happiness, like autumn fruits, should be plucked on time.
The wise man fights passion, the fool becomes its slave.
What you do not wish for yourself, do not wish for others, you do not like to be a slave - do not turn others into slavery. Since you cannot do without the services of slaves, you are, first of all, a slave yourself - just as virtue and vice do not coexist with each other, so do freedom and slavery.
What you should not do, do not do even in your thoughts.
A person with free will cannot be called a slave.
The rarer the pleasures, the more pleasant they are.
In order for the sun to rise, there is no need for prayers or spells, no, it suddenly begins to send its rays to the joy of everyone, so do not expect either applause, noise, or praise to do good - do good deeds voluntarily - and you will be loved like the sun.

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