Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSDemand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
More Epictetus Quotes
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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