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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Persahabatan

So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.

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Keberanian

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?

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Keluarga

Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.

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Pendidikan

And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.

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Kehidupan

If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.

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Pendidikan

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

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Motivasi

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

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Kreativitas

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

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Kehidupan

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

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Cinta

As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.

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Kehidupan

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

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Kehidupan

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

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Motivasi

Why do you want to read anyway – for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn’t make you peaceful, what good is it?

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Motivasi

Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn’t make you peaceful, what good is it?

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Pendidikan

I cannot call somebody ‘hard-working’ knowing only that they read and write. Even if ‘all night long’ is added, I cannot say it – not until I know the focus of all this energy.

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Motivasi

Isn’t reading a kind of preparation for life?’ But life is composed of things other than books. It is as if an athlete, on entering the stadium, were to complain that he’s not outside exercising.This was the goal of your exercise, of your weights, your practice ring and your training partners.

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Motivasi

Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer …’Well, isn’t it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?

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Keluarga

We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.

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Kehidupan

It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.

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Kreativitas

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.

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