“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid. — 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
“As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or… — 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
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new. — 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
“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
