Приписывается: Epictetus

«We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.»
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Этого нет в трудах: Epictetus

Often attributed to Epictetus, but Diogenes Laertius (VII.23) gives it to Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism, addressing a young man who would not stop talking.

Источник: Diógenes Laercio. Vidas de los filósofos ilustres, VII 23 («Zenón»). Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II, Loeb Classical Library 185. Londres: Heinemann, 1925 (texto en Wikisource).

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Подлинные слова: Epictetus

«Of things some are in our power, and others are not.»
Manual 1, 1. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: George Long (1877); español: traducción propia.
«Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.»
Manual 5. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: George Long (1877); español: traducción propia.
«Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.»
Manual 8. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: George Long (1877); español: traducción propia.

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