Epictetus Quotes
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.
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I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
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Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
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A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
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This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends-first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each. (123).
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A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.
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Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
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Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.
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What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.
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Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit.
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It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.