It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which… — 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
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a… — 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
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
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice. — 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
