Epictetus Quotes
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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And are all profited by what they hear, or only some among them? So that it seems that there is an art of hearing as well as one of speaking. (81).
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Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!
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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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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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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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Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. (6).
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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.
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If you wish to write, write.
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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.