It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
by Epictetus
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
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Sayings by Epictetus
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus 
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
Control thy passions lest they take vengeance upon thee.
- Epictetus
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Anyone is free who lives as he wishes to live.
- Epictetus
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
- Epictetus
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
Fortify yourself with contentment,
for it is an impregnable fortress. -
- Epictetus
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
God has entrusted me with myself.
- Epictetus
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Silence is safer than speech.
- Epictetus
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
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.
- Epictetus
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Keep silence for the most part,
and speak only when you must,
and then briefly.
- Epictetus
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
He is a drunkard who takes more than
three glasses though he be not drunk.
- Epictetus
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
The world turns aside to let any man pass
who knows where he is going.
- Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
It takes more than just a good looking body.
You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- Epictetus
Unless we place our religion
and our treasure in the same thing,
religion will always be sacrificed.
- Epictetus
One that desires to excel
should endeavor in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
Freedom is not procured by a full
enjoyment of what is desired,
but by controlling the desire.
- Epictetus
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Not Sayings
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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