Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSIt’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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 is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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