Quote: Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? [ Epictetus]
Quote: What will the world be quite overturned when you die? [ Epictetus]
Quote: Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. [ Epictetus]
Quote: If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. [ Epictetus]
Quote: It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice. [ Epictetus]
Quote: A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Only the educated are free. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another s. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. [ Epictetus]
Quote: There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. [ Epictetus]
Quote: No man is free who is not a master of himself. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Freedom is the right to live as we wish. [ Epictetus]
Quote: For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship. [ Epictetus]
Quote: No great thing is created suddenly. [ Epictetus]
Quote: God hath entrusted me with myself. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. [ Epictetus]
Quote: A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. [ Epictetus]
Quote: It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. [ Epictetus]
Quote: Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. [ Epictetus]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. [ Epictetus]