Epictetus' best quotes
The top 3 according to 88 votes from people: Men are disturbed not by things, but by the opinions about things. · Do not seek for things to happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well. · Man, if you are anybody, go and walk alone, talk with yourself, and don't hide in the chorus.. (Updated Dec 17, 2019.)
The teachings of the slave who became a philosopher, from the Enchiridion and the Discourses recorded by Arrian: what is up to you and what is not.
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the opinions about things.
Enchiridion, 5.
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Do not seek for things to happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
Enchiridion, 8.
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Man, if you are anybody, go and walk alone, talk with yourself, and don't hide in the chorus.
Discourses, III, 14.
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It is not pain or death that is terrible, but the fear of pain or death.
Discourses, II, 1.
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Everything has two handles, one by which it may be carried, the other by which it may not.
Enchiridion, 43.
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To blame others for one's misfortunes is a sign of lack of education; to blame oneself shows that education has begun.
Enchiridion, 5.
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If you want to be a writer, write.
Discourses, II, 18.
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I am a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day.
Discourses, II, 5.
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We should not moor a ship with one anchor, nor a life with one hope.
Fragments.
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Diogenes the Cynic said, and said well, that the only way to keep freedom is to be always ready to die for it.
Discourses, IV, 1.
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No one is free who is not master of himself.
Fragments.
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