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Quotes from Epictetus

Bear and forbear.
~ Epictetus
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.
~ Epictetus
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
~ Epictetus
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
~ Epictetus
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
~ Epictetus
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free
~ Epictetus