The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
- Epictetus
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
- Epictetus
Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.
- Epictetus
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
