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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, 6 Tage oder 720.965 Tage alt.

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

• The soul that companies with virtue is like an everflowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

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• The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

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• There is no shortage of wise sayings; books are full of them. The need is for people who apply them.

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• There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

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• There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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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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• 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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• Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

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• Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

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• We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

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• What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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• What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practising for this, I was training for this.

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• When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.

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• Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

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• Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them.

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• You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

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• C'est le fait d'un ignorant d'accuser les autres de ses propres échecs; celui qui a commencé de s'instruire s'en accuse soi-même; celui qui est instruit n'en accuse ni autrui ni soi-même.

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• Ce ne sont pas les maximes qui manquent; les livres en sont pleins. Ce qui manque: ce sont les hommes qui les appliquent.

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• Ce qui trouble les hommes, ce ne sont pas les choses, mais les jugements relatifs aux choses.

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• Dans la vie, nous ne nous présentons jamais à qui peut nous confondre et nous haïssons qui nous confond.

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