Stoic Quotes by
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.

Epictetus

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?

Epictetus

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.

Epictetus

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.

Epictetus

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.

Epictetus