Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSOnly the educated are free.
EPICTETUSWe all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSCircumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUSDon’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
EPICTETUSIt is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
EPICTETUSEvery difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
EPICTETUSDemand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
EPICTETUSFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EPICTETUSSuffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
EPICTETUSIs freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUSFirst learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUSImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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