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
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear… — 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
Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to… — 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
Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook… — 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
