Quote #1195

"What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are"
- Epictetus

Quote #1170

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it"
- Epictetus

Quote #1148

"No great thing is created suddenly"
- Epictetus

Quote #1125

"….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting"
- Epictetus

Quote #1097

"Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well"
- Epictetus

Quote #1069

"We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us"
- Epictetus

Quote #1053

"Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment"
- Epictetus

Quote #1030

"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods"
- Epictetus

Quote #1008

"Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat"
- Epictetus

Quote #981

"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope"
- Epictetus

Quote #960

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly"
- Epictetus

Quote #941

"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you"
- Epictetus

Quote #912

"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse"
- Epictetus

Quote #885

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak"
- Epictetus

Quote #862

"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself"
- Epictetus

Quote #842

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them"
- Epictetus

Quote #818

"Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak"
- Epictetus

Quote #791

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him"
- Epictetus

Quote #764

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters"
- Epictetus