Epictetus Quotes
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Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
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It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
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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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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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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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Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
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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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Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. (6).
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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.