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
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
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave… — 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
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. — 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
Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not… — 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
Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will. — 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
