Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSAnything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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