Epictetus Quotes

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
No great thing is created suddenly.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
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