Quotes from Epictetus

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

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

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

Only the educated are free.

Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

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Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.