If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.… — 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
