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Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own
Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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I am always content with what happens for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
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A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.
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I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
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It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.
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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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God has entrusted me with myself.
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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Think of God oftener than you breathe.
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