Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Sacrifice
Offer
Emotion
Gods
Days
Third
Thanksgiving
Used
Thirds
Cure
Every
Anger
Fourth
Would
Angry
Feed
Offers
Cures
Reach
Thirty
More quotes by Epictetus
When our friends are present we ought to treat them well and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
Epictetus
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
Epictetus
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
Epictetus
Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
Epictetus
When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?
Epictetus
When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
Epictetus
It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror and this cannot be without toil.
Epictetus
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
Epictetus
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
Epictetus
Seek not good from without seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Epictetus
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?
Epictetus
Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
Epictetus
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
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
It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.
Epictetus
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
Epictetus
Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
Epictetus
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus
Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
Epictetus
Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
Epictetus
