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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