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
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. — 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
It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish 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
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify,… — 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
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write. — 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
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 you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already… — 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
