It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. Epictetus More Quotes by Epictetus More Quotes From Epictetus What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite. Epictetus mask bites scary When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods Epictetus unhappy suffering men Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment. Epictetus riding doe opportunity You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer. Epictetus invincible conquer power What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events. Epictetus events mind people Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them. Epictetus principles evil two The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. Epictetus brotherhood compassion cities What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events? Epictetus philosopher events philosophy If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself. Epictetus trust-yourself wish knowledge O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant? Epictetus brother father son What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction. Epictetus parenting ignorance children What will the world be quite overturned when you die? Epictetus narcissism ego world Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's. Epictetus business character men Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice. Epictetus sentences justice giving Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects. Epictetus faculty certain art Confident because of our caution Epictetus caution confidence It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice. Epictetus conviction choices inspirational Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. Epictetus delight pleasure giving In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them. Epictetus hate men life If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. - Epictetus irritated judgment remember
