You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! — 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
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth,… — 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
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
It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred. — 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… — 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
