Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSIt’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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 silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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