God has entrusted me with myself.
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Epictetus
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About Epictetus
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by EpictetusFreedom is the right to live as we wish.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is c…
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.