Epictetus Quote: The bond of the body is loosened by nature...

The bond of the body is loosened by nature through death but the bond of the soul is loosened by learning, experience and by discipline.

— Epictetus

Source: Fragment of the Lost Books of Epictetus

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Select Quotes by Epictetus

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

— Epictetus

Source: Enchiridion - 135

If you wish to be well spoken of, learn to speak well of others: and when you have learned to speak well of them, try to act well, and so you will reap the fruit of being well spoken of.

— Epictetus

Source: Fragment of the Lost Books of Epictetus