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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
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Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.
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Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.
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You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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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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You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
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God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure but if you stay, stop lamenting.
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Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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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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Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?
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What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
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Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens
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