Quote from Epictetus, Of Human Freedom
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Epictetus
Quote from Epictetus, The Discourses
The philosopher’s school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Quote from Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings
Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.
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Quote from Epictetus, All the Works of Epictetus
For in this Case, 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.
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Quote from Epictetus, Enchiridion
If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on is way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?
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