“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. — 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
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 a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“What disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgements on events: For instance, death is nothing dreadful, or else Socrates would… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day – especially death – and you will… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“What is death? A "tragic mask." Turn it and examine it. See, it does not bite. The poor body must be separated… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance — Epictetus Copy Share Image
For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even… — 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
