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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

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Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
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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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Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed evils avoided powers daily exercised careful resolutions unerring decisions.
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Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
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God has entrusted me with myself.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
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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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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be or they neither are, nor appear to be or they are, and do not appear to be or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
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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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If you wish to write, write.
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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