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55 AD - Born a slave in Hierapolis, Asia Minor.
89 AD - 95 AD - He was exiled along with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian sometime.
90 AD - He was expelled with the other philosophers by Domitian, who was irritated by the support and encouragement which the opposition to his tyranny found amongst the adherents of Stoicism.
135 AD - He died in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.
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- "No man is free who is not master of himself."
- "Difficulties are things that show what men are."
- "No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
- "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
- "Only the educated are free."
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