One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character. — 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 Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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 Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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 Image
