Quotes by Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

No great thing is created suddenly.

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