Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSWe 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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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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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