"If you have anything better to be doing……" — Epictetus

"If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that."

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353 Quotes by Epictetus

Epictetus has 353 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we… — Chinua Achebe
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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