87 Quotations by Epictetus
- 21. He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

- 22. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which h ...

- 23. He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

- 24. If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

- 25. If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to it ...

- 26. If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself, you should sa ...

- 27. If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mo ...

- 28. If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

- 29. If you wish to be a writer, write.

- 30. If you wish to be a writer; write!

- 31. If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every ...

- 32. Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in pri ...

- 33. Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

- 34. It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instanc ...

- 35. It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them

- 36. It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

- 37. It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works ...

- 38. It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that wh ...

- 39. It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one enterin ...

- 40. It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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