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
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
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without… — 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 think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a… — 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
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
A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and… — 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
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
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on… — 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… — 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
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right? — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily. — 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… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“But to be hanged—is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men… — 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
