What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share
“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness” — Epictetus Copy Share
