Quote

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

Epictetus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Others
Form
Debases
Character
Tourism
Impressions
Theft
Impression
Control
Effort

More quotes by Epictetus

Image
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
Image
Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.
Epictetus
Image
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus
Image
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
Epictetus
Image
God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
Epictetus
Image
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
Epictetus
Image
Think of God more often than thou breathest.
Epictetus
Image
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
Epictetus
Image
In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taughtbut in life there are many things to draw us aside.
Epictetus
Image
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
Epictetus
Image
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
Epictetus
Image
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
Image
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
Epictetus
Image
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
Epictetus
Image
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it you can either accept it or resent it.
Epictetus
Image
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
Epictetus
Image
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
Epictetus
Image
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Epictetus
Image
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Epictetus
Image
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus