Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
EPICTETUSNo man is free who is not master of himself.
More Epictetus Quotes
-
-
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUS -
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUS -
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUS -
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
EPICTETUS -
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUS -
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUS -
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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 -
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
EPICTETUS -
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
EPICTETUS -
Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUS -
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUS -
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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 -
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EPICTETUS







