If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
More Epictetus Quotes
-
-
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
EPICTETUS -
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
EPICTETUS -
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
EPICTETUS -
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUS -
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
EPICTETUS -
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUS -
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EPICTETUS -
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUS -
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
EPICTETUS -
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
EPICTETUS -
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EPICTETUS -
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
EPICTETUS -
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
EPICTETUS -
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
EPICTETUS -
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUS