87 Quotations by Epictetus
- 61. One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
- 62. Only the educated are free.
- 63. Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
- 64. Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
- 65. Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, ...
- 66. Ruin and recovery are both from within.
- 67. So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it ...
- 68. So, when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you wit ...
- 69. Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, wh ...
- 70. The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as ...
- 71. The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
- 72. The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation f ...
- 73. The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happin ...
- 74. The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right ju ...
- 75. The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.
- 76. There is only one way to happiness, and that is cease worrying about the things which are beyond the ...
- 77. To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows t ...
- 78. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- 79. We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rath ...
- 80. What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is im ...
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