770 Quotes by Epictetus

Don't trust in your reputation, money, or position, but in the strength that is yours - namely, your judgements about the things that you control and don't control.

Never say you are alone for you are not alone, your God and your genius is within.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them, but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

When one maintains her proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.

Watchfulness...is the vital need, for he who does not watch is soon overwhelmed. The sternman needs only sleep a moment and the vessel is lost.