Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.Epictetus
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
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 complete.
Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
As the touchstone which tries gold, but is not itself tried by the gold such is he, who has the standard of judgment.
Epictetus
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