Stoic Quotes by
Epictetus
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even speak of himself or his own merits.
Epictetus
We should always be asking ourselves - is this something that is, or is not, in my control?
Epictetus
Some things are in out control and others not.
Epictetus
Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.
Epictetus
Difficulties show a person's character.
Epictetus
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.
Epictetus
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Epictetus
Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
Epictetus
Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.
Epictetus
No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.
Epictetus
You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.
Epictetus
Be careful to leave your sons and daughters well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
Whoever chafes at the conditions dealt by fate is unskilled in the art of life; whoever bears with them nobly and makes wise use of the results is a man who deserves to be considered good.
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The husbandman deals with land; physicians and trainers with the body; the wise man with his own Mind.
Epictetus
Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?
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Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.
Epictetus
Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.
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Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?
Epictetus
If the Divine is faithful, he also must be faithful; if free, he also must be free; if beneficent, he also must be beneficent; if magnanimous, he also must be magnanimous. Thus as an imitator of God must he follow Him in every deed and word.
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Let your will to avoid have no concern with what is not in man's power; direct it only to things in man's power that are contrary to nature.
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