Epictetus

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our… Read More »11-May

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. -Epictetus

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. -Epictetus

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. -Epictetus

Be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. -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… Read More »29-Apr

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.… Read More »22-Apr

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… Read More »21-Apr

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