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God has entrusted me with myself.

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Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Entrusted
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Responsibility
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
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What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
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It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
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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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There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
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Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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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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We 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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