Epictetus Quotes

God has entrusted me with myself.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Only the educated are free.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

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

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

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