Quote

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.

Epictetus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Handle
Gratitude
Another
Two
Cannot
May
Everything
Handles
Borne

More quotes by Epictetus

Image
Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
Epictetus
Image
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
Epictetus
Image
Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
Epictetus
Image
Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
Epictetus
Image
A thing either is what it appears to be or it is not, but yet appears to be or it is, but does not appear to be or it is not, and does not appear to be.
Epictetus
Image
God has entrusted me with myself.
Epictetus
Image
Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror but it is not accomplished without sweat.
Epictetus
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment of fear itself only should we be afraid.
Epictetus
Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
Image
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
Image
If you would be a reader, read if a writer, write.
Epictetus
Image
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Epictetus
Image
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
Epictetus
Image
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
Image
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
Epictetus
Image
Whatever you would make habitual, practice it and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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