“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” ― Epictetus
“Know first who you are then adorn yourself accordingly.” ― Epictetus
“Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty.” ― Epictetus
“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” ― Epictetus
“If you want to be a writer, write.” ― Epictetus
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.” ― Epictetus
“Only the educated are free.” ― Epictetus
“No great thing is created suddenly.” ― Epictetus
“Do not try to seem wise to others. ” ― Epictetus
“Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.” ― Epictetus
“Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.” ― Epictetus
“No man is free who is not a master of himself.” ― Epictetus
“If you want any good, get it from within.” ― Epictetus
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus
“When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.” ― Epictetus
“Although we can’t control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.” ― Epictetus
“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.” ― Epictetus
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.” ― Epictetus
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” ― Epictetus
“A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.” ― Epictetus
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” ― Epictetus
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.” ― Epictetus
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus
“If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.” ― Epictetus
“It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.” ― Epictetus
“Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.” ― Epictetus
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” ― Epictetus
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus
“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness” ― Epictetus
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” ― Epictetus
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ” ― Epictetus
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.” ― Epictetus
“Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions.” ― Epictetus
“It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.” ― Epictetus
“It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.” ― Epictetus
“It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.” ― Epictetus
“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.” ― Epictetus
“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.” ― Epictetus
“You should act without the approval of others.” ― Epictetus
“I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.” ― Epictetus
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ― Epictetus
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” ― Epictetus
“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.” ― Epictetus
“Life is short. Prefer honest life to long yet shameful life.” ― Epictetus
“A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope” ― Epictetus
“Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.” ― Epictetus
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.” ― Epictetus
“Don’t seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.” ― Epictetus
