Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSI laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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