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Explore our hand-picked selection of 467 inspiring quotes by Epictetus.

About Epictetus

  • Born: 55
  • Died: 135
  • Occupation: Philosopher
    • If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for god made all men to be happy.
    Men Unhappy Faults
    We are not to lead events, but to follow them.
    Events Providence
    A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.
    Sweet Soul Rich
    If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
    Knowledge Wish Trust Yourself
    Never in any case say i have lost such a thing, but i have returned it. is your child dead? it is a return. is your wife dead? it is a return. are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
    Children Lost Love Wife
    Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
    Evident
    If you wish to write, write.
    Writing Wish Ifs
    O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has god for his father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? but if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?
    Brother Father Son
    To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
    May Unreasonable Creatures
    What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
    People Mind Events
    Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.
    Justice Safe
    Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. if they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.
    Art Hate Conceited
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