Epictetus's Quotes

Epictetus's Quotes 29

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

No greater thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a...

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

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

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

Only the educated are free.

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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...

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

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor nor should life rest on a...

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

If virtue promises happiness prosperity and peace then progress in virtue...

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...

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

No great thing is created suddenly.

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...

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.

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