Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSOnly the educated are free.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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