Words matter. These are the best Epictetus Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Only the educated are free.
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
God has entrusted me with myself.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Silence is safer than speech.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
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.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
