Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSIt is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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