« All Man Quotes · Epictetus's Page
Man Quotes by Epictetus
- I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
- When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this…
- All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
- It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun…
- As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
- Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier,…
- In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate…
- Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a…
- No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
- No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
- To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
- Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
- No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
- It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
- An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has…
- If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all…
- Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he…
- What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
- It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
More Man Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt