Author: Epictetus

Quotes

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

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

- Epictetus

If you wish to be a writer, write.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

- Epictetus

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

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

- Epictetus

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

- Epictetus

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

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

- Epictetus

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

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

- Epictetus

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

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

- Epictetus

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

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

- Epictetus

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

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

- Epictetus

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