Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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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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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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