Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
EPICTETUSOnly the educated are free.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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