Epictetus Quotes
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
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When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
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Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made man to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. (122).
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Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
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Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.
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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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Think of God oftener than you breathe.
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In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
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Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.
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As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free.
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The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.