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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them - Epictetus
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About Epictetus
Epictetus (c. 55 – c. 135 AD), born a slave, was a Greek Stoic philosopher. His words were recorded by his student Arrian in the Discourses and Enchiridion written in the early 2nd-century.
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ΕΠΙΚΤΗΤΟΣ
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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[8] Consider who it is that you praise when you praise people dispassionately: is it those who are just, or unjust? — ‘Those who are just.’ — The temperate or the intemperate? — ‘The temperate.’ — The self-controlled or the dissolute? — ‘The self-controlled.’ [9] — You should know, then, that if you make yourself a person of that kind, you’ll be making yourself beautiful; but if you neglect these virtues, you’re bound to be ugly, whatever techniques you adopt to make yourself appear beautiful.
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