Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
EPICTETUSNo matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
More Epictetus Quotes
-
-
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.
EPICTETUS -
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUS -
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUS -
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
EPICTETUS -
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUS -
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
EPICTETUS -
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUS -
Difficulty shows what men are.
EPICTETUS -
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
EPICTETUS -
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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 -
No man is free who is not master of himself.
EPICTETUS -
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EPICTETUS -
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
EPICTETUS -
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
EPICTETUS







