Epictetus Quotes

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will. - Epictetus

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. - Epictetus

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. - Epictetus

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others. If he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave. - Epictetus

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. - Epictetus

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? - Epictetus

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison. - Epictetus

When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember, never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone, but God is within, and your genius is within. - Epictetus

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? - Epictetus

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