Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent. Epictetus More Quotes by Epictetus More Quotes From Epictetus Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad? Epictetus mad wish people The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions. Epictetus purification judgment soul A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. Epictetus truth love men When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself. Epictetus doe remember thinking We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed. Epictetus blunt freedom-of-speech knives If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that. Epictetus aging ifs To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred. Epictetus aging mean It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else Epictetus quality impossible two If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. Epictetus purple slave complaining Desire and happiness cannot live together. Epictetus together desire He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. Epictetus philosophical drunk glasses Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. Epictetus eye dying death If you would be good, first believe that you are bad. Epictetus would-be believe firsts Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. Epictetus use evil death If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance. Epictetus crowns rose heart Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude. Epictetus errors men mean Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated. Epictetus fighting games men The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. Epictetus inability weakness philosophy If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage. Epictetus philosopher action men With ills unending strives the putter off. Epictetus unending strife strive
