Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Quote by Epictetus
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
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Epictetus Quotes
- Nothing 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.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
- We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
- If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
- Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Best Quotes
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