Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Epictetus quotes, Epictetus sayings, and Epictetus proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.Epictetus
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.Epictetus
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Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress.Epictetus
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If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.Epictetus
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It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.Epictetus
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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.Epictetus
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.Epictetus
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.Epictetus
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You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.Epictetus
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.Epictetus
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.Epictetus
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A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.Epictetus
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.Epictetus
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Difficulty shows what men are.Epictetus
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.Epictetus
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Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.Epictetus
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God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.Epictetus
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.Epictetus
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.Epictetus
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. Epictetus
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent. Epictetus
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.Epictetus
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.Epictetus
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No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. Epictetus
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.Epictetus
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.Epictetus
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus