Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSDesire and happiness cannot live together.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Every 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.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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