First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus

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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.