Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSThe world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
More Epictetus Quotes
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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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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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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