Quote #63
Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice:. None is a slave whose acts are free.
More from Epictetus
- Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
- Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
- Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.
- Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
- Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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