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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
Epictetus
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus
It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
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.
Epictetus
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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Silence is safer than speech.
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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way all your attention must be given to the mind.
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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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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.
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I am not eternity, but a man a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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