Tag: Epictetus
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Silence is safer than speech.
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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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