Epictetus Quotes

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. - Epictetus

What will the world be quite overturned when you die? - Epictetus

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are. - Epictetus

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus

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

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. - Epictetus

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. - Epictetus

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. - Epictetus

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

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