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“But I shall wear a crown of gold. If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”
― Epictetus

“It is not possible that what is by nature free can be disturbed by anything else, or hindered by any other thing than by itself. But it is a man's own opinions which disturb him. For when the tyrant says to a man, I will chain your leg, he who values his leg says, Do not; have pity. But he who values his own will says, If it appears more advantageous to you, chain it.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus

“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”
― Epictetus, Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion and Fragments

“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”
― Epictetus