"Freedom is the right to live as we…" — Epictetus

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353 Quotes by Epictetus

Epictetus has 353 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always… — Hannah Arendt
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best… — Aristotle
I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the… — Julian Assange
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a… — Billie Joe Armstrong
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a… — Rowan Atkinson
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,… — Margaret Atwood

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