If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to… — 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
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
Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part… — 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
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile… — 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
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly… — 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
