epictetus Quotes

“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

“There is nothing good or evil save in the will.”

“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”

“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”

“God has entrusted me with myself.”

“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”

“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”

“We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.”

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”