One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
More Quotes from Epictetus:
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.Epictetus
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Epictetus
Any one thing in the creation is suffiocient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Epictetus
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Anothers.
Epictetus
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