Epictetus Quotes
-
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
-
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.
-
Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them?
-
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens."
-
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
-
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
-
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
-
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
-
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
-
Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!
-
Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. (6).
-
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
-
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.
-
Keep death and exile daily before thine eyes, with all else that men deem terrible, but more especially Death. Then wilt thou never think a mean thought, nor covet anything beyond measure. (161).