Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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