Epictetus Quotes
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If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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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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Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!
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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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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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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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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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It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens."
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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.