Quotes by : Epictetus

Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really....

All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.

Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking....

If you wish to be a writer, write.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own....

Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer …’Well, isn’t it just as....

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the....

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private....