If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
EPICTETUSIt is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
More Epictetus Quotes
-
-
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
EPICTETUS -
Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUS -
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
EPICTETUS -
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EPICTETUS -
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
EPICTETUS -
The best place to get help is from yourself.
EPICTETUS -
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EPICTETUS -
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUS -
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
EPICTETUS -
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
EPICTETUS -
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUS -
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUS -
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUS -
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
EPICTETUS -
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUS