When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
More Epictetus Quotes
-
-
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUS -
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
EPICTETUS -
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUS -
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EPICTETUS -
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUS -
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUS -
Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUS -
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUS -
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
EPICTETUS -
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EPICTETUS -
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
EPICTETUS -
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
EPICTETUS -
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
EPICTETUS -
Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUS -
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUS