Epictetus Quotes
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No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Does a Philosopher apply to people to come and hear him? does he not rather, of his own nature, attract those that will be benefited by him-like the sun that warms, and the food that sustains them? (120).
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Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
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Think of God oftener than you breathe.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
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The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.
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Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
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Confident because of our caution.
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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
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You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?