Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSNo man is free who is not master of himself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Only the educated are free.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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