Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Only the educated are free.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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