Epictetus

There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

Epictetus

There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.

Epictetus

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Epictetus

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

Epictetus

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men.

Epictetus

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

Epictetus

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Epictetus

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

Epictetus

We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.

Epictetus