Epictetus Quotes
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Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
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Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
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Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
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It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens."
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
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Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. (6).
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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If you wish to write, write.
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Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.
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What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.