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The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In this engaging and provocative book, Eldon Taylor provides his readers with specific ways in which their beliefs can lead to success or failure in their life undertakings. Each chapter provides nuggets of wisdom as well as road maps for guiding them toward greater self-understanding, balance, responsibility, and compassion.
Sep 10, 2025
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Wise men speak because they have something to say
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Man is the measure of all things.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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