Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ri...
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attr...
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.
When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his duty. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears right to you, bu...
It is a universal law — have no illusion — that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.
He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.
For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.
Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are...
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the