Quote

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

Epictetus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Lives
Place
Every
Safe
Justice

More quotes by Epictetus

Image
Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
Epictetus
Image
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
Image
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus
Image
It is your own convictions which compels you that is, choice compels choice.
Epictetus
Image
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
Epictetus
Image
If you would be a reader, read if a writer, write.
Epictetus
Image
Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
Epictetus
Image
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control
Epictetus
Image
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
Epictetus
Image
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
Epictetus
Image
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Epictetus
Image
By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
Epictetus
Image
No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
Epictetus
Image
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Epictetus
Image
Silence is safer than speech.
Epictetus
Image
We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
Epictetus
Image
Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
Epictetus
Image
The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.
Epictetus
Image
Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it.
Epictetus
Image
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
Epictetus