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Epictetus: 'We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.'

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Epictetus: 'Freedom is the right to live as we wish.'

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Epictetus: 'No great thing is created suddenly.'

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Epictetus: 'It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.'

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Epictetus: 'Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.'

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Epictetus: 'God has entrusted me with myself.'

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Epictetus: 'Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.'

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Epictetus: 'Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.'

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Epictetus: 'Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.'

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Epictetus: 'The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.'

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Epictetus: 'Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.'

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Epictetus: '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.'

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Epictetus: 'All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.'

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Epictetus: 'It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.'

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Thucydides: 'Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.'

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Thucydides: 'Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.'

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Thucydides: 'It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.'

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Thucydides: 'Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.'

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Thucydides: 'We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.'

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Thucydides: 'Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.'

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