Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.
Epictetus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Child
Mistress
Whatever
Strongly
Living
Appears
Father
Hated
Anything
Held
Children
Therefore
Needs
Brother
Abhorred
Friend
Hindrance
More quotes by Epictetus
Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.
Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
Epictetus
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.
Epictetus
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus
What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
Epictetus
Think of God more often than thou breathest.
Epictetus
Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.
Epictetus
One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
Epictetus
Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.
Epictetus
And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?
Epictetus
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
Epictetus
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
Epictetus
What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.
Epictetus
Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
Epictetus
What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
Epictetus
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
Epictetus
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus
Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.
Epictetus
The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
Epictetus
