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
Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference. — 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
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter… — 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
