Famous Epictetus Quotes

  • If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported. – Epictetus

    If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.– Epictetus

  • And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials. – Epictetus

    And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.– Epictetus

  • Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower. – Epictetus

    Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.– Epictetus

  • Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it. – Epictetus

    Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.– Epictetus

  • Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it. – Epictetus

    Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.– Epictetus

  • Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire. – Epictetus

    Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire.– Epictetus

  • Don’t put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else. – Epictetus

    Don’t put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.– Epictetus

  • Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. – Epictetus

    Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.– Epictetus