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God has entrusted me with myself.
Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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Ask yourself, How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?
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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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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.
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You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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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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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
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