Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
More Epictetus Quotes
-
-
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
EPICTETUS -
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUS -
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUS -
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUS -
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EPICTETUS -
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
EPICTETUS -
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
EPICTETUS -
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
EPICTETUS -
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
EPICTETUS -
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
EPICTETUS -
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
EPICTETUS -
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUS -
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUS -
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUS -
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUS







