Epictetus's Quotes

Epictetus's Quotes 90

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you...

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only...

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion...

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his...

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a...

Only the educated are free.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you...

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes...

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness...

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things...

No great thing is created suddenly.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig....

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and...

God has entrusted me with myself.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by...

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To...

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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