Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself. Epictetus View this quote
It doesn’t take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason. Epictetus
Epictetus
It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life’s rewards. And often it is best for us not to pay the price, for the price might be our integrity. Epictetus
It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth. Epictetus
It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often. Epictetus
It is both wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. Epictetus
It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible. Epictetus
It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united. Epictetus
It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire. Epictetus
It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions. Epictetus
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. Epictetus
Philosopher from Ancient Greece
50 - 138AD
