By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSIs freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
More Epictetus Quotes
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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I 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.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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