If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know… — 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… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to… — 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
If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will… — 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
You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,… — 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
