Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Difficulty shows what men are.
Epictetus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Men
Difficulty
Shows
More quotes by Epictetus
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus
What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
Epictetus
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
Epictetus
What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
Epictetus
When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.
Epictetus
I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.
Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
Epictetus
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
Epictetus
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
Epictetus
First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
Epictetus
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed evils avoided powers daily exercised careful resolutions unerring decisions.
Epictetus
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
Act your part with honor.
Epictetus
Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
Epictetus
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
Epictetus