Epictetus

When you find your direction, check to make sure that it is the right one.

Epictetus

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn’t convenient, comfortable, or easy.

Epictetus

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

Epictetus

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Epictetus

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Epictetus

At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.

Epictetus

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Epictetus

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Epictetus