Epictetus

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man’s own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
-Epictetus

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
-Epictetus

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
-Epictetus

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
-Epictetus

It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
-Epictetus

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life’s purpose.
-Epictetus

God has entrusted me with myself.
-Epictetus

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our life’s purpose.
-Epictetus

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

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.
-Epictetus