We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. — 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
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Friend, lay hold with a desperate grasp, ere it is too late, on Freedom, on Tranquility, on Greatness of soul!” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one… — 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
