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If you know where you are going, the world will give way to you. -
1kNothing great 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. epictetus
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Nothing can be created suddenly. There is a time for creation. It takes its own sweet time. -
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If you don't control your passions, they will overwhelm you. -
899The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. epictetus
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Bearing and forbearing are two powers a wise man is endowed with. -
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Best of the things will lose the sheen if its overused. Let them be used in moderation. -
756Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? epictetus
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What you thought as your own is not your own. They belong to some body. You returned it to them. -
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The real freedom enables you to live as you like -
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Knowing yourself opens the path for your further progress -
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the essence of philosophy, "sustain and abstain. " -
781Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. epictetus
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About how to procure freedom -
750If 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. epictetus
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An Epictetus quote : progress is always an approach to happiness -
714The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. epictetus
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Man should not be dependent on external things for his happiness. -
699Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. epictetus
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Have your role model and follow in toto -
746Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them. epictetus
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Take things as they are -
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Wise resist the pleasures. but the foolish become slaves -
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View of the things disturb the people -
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Don't speak before knowing the meaning of what you speak -
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How you react to the happenings will matter -
690Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. epictetus
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The hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.