Epictetus

Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50–c. 138)

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Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.

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Keluarga

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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Doa

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

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Doa

Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?

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Nasihat

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

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Kehidupan

no man is free until he s a master of himself!!

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Kebahagiaan

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

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Kebahagiaan

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

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Kebahagiaan

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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Sukses

The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.

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Sukses

You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.

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Pendidikan

Only the educated are free.

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Motivasi

First say to yourself what you would beand then do what you have to do.

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Keberanian

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

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Kehidupan

Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.

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Perjuangan

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

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Perjuangan

What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.

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Perjuangan

Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

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Perjuangan

Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.

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Perjuangan

Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.

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Kehidupan

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.

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