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Philosoph, seine Lehre basierte auf Werten der "Genügsamkeit und Unabhängigkeit des Geistes" (Griechenland, 50 - 135).

Epiktet · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Epiktet wäre heute 1973 Jahre, 11 Monate, 9 Tage oder 720.968 Tage alt.

Geboren am 14.05.0050 in Hierapolis
Gestorben am 31.12.0135 in Nikopolis
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• In your sex life, preserve purity as far as you can before marriage, and if you indulge, take only those privileges that are lawful. However, do not make yourself offensive or censorious to those who do indulge, and do not make frequent mention of the fact that you do not yourself indulge.

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• It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

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• It is difficult for a rich person to be modest, or a modest person rich.

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• It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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• It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous - even death is terrible only if we fear it.

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• Lampis the shipowner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, "My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor."

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• Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

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• Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.

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• No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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• No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

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• No man is free who is not master of himself.

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• Nothing is more becoming a ruler than to despise no one, nor to be insolent, but to preside over all impartially.The obligation of the subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, but no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

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• On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

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• One that desires to excel should endeavor it in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

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• Only the educated are free.

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• So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist - that you may prove a victor at the Great Games. Yet without toil or sweat this may not be.

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• So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games? But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by the rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician.

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• The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

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• The good or ill of man lies within his own will.

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• The road to happiness consists in not worrying about anything that is beyond our influence.

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