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
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person. — 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
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
If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will,… — 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
Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does… — 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 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
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
Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short… — 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
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
Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches… — 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
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from… — 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
Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your… — 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 wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already… — 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
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share
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
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share
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
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
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
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
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share
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
“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness” — Epictetus Copy Share
