Epictetus Quotes
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
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