Quotes from Epictetus
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
— Epictetus
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
— Epictetus
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
— Epictetus
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
— Epictetus
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
— Epictetus
No man is free until he s a master of himself!!
— Epictetus
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
— Epictetus
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
— Epictetus
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
— Epictetus
If you wish to be a writer, write.
— Epictetus
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
— Epictetus
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
— Epictetus