4 Epictetus Quotes on Freedom

Epictetus quotes on freedom

9. Only the educated are free.

38. What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery-beware of 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. (41)

63. Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice:. None is a slave whose acts are free.

75. Happiness is not in strength, wealth, power, or all three. It lies in ourself, in true freedom, conquest of ignoble fear, perfect self-government, in power of contentment, and the even flow of life, even in poverty, exile, disease, and the very Valley of the Shadow of Death.