Epictetus Quotes (15+)

Enjoy the best Epictetus Quotes. Quotations by Epictetus (Stoic Philosopher)
Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970

Control your passions lest they take vengeance on you.

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

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

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

Cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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

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

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

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going

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Epictetus (c. 50–135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher who taught that while external events are beyond our control, we are absolute masters of our own minds and reactions.