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Epictetus

Quotes by Epictetus, former slave turned Stoic philosopher whose teachings on resilience and inner freedom endure to this day.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

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Only the educated are free.

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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No man is free who is not master of himself.

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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