Epictetus Quotes: Stoic Philosophy for Life

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

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

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

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Only the educated are free.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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