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Top 500 Epictetus Quotes (2025 Update)
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Epictetus Quote: “In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.”
Epictetus Quote: “Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.”
Epictetus Quote: “A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.”
Epictetus Quote: “If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.”
Epictetus Quote: “What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”
Epictetus Quote: “Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.”
Epictetus Quote: “If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.”
Epictetus Quote: “What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.”
Epictetus Quote: “Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.”
Epictetus Quote: “As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.”
Epictetus Quote: “Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.”
Epictetus Quote: “If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: ‘I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.’ When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.”
Epictetus Quote: “Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.”
Epictetus Quote: “Freedom isn’t secured by filling up on your heart’s desire but by removing your desire.”
Epictetus Quote: “If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.”
Epictetus Quote: “Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.”
Epictetus Quote: “The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.”
Epictetus Quote: “And the way to be free is to let go of anything that is not within your control.”
Epictetus Quote: “And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?”
Epictetus Quote: “There is no shame in making an honest effort.”
Epictetus Quote: “We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.”
Epictetus Quote: “Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.”
Epictetus Quote: “You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.”
Epictetus Quote: “Some young women confuse their self-worth with their ability to attract the attention of men, and so pour all their energies into makeup, clothing, and jewelry. If only they realized that virtue, honor, and self-respect are the marks of a true beauty.”
Epictetus Quote: “You are the one who knows yourself – which is to say, you know how much you are worth in your own estimation, and therefore at what price you will sell yourself; because people sell themselves at different rates.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.”
Epictetus Quote: “He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.”
Epictetus Quote: “Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.”
Epictetus Quote: “Difficulty shows what men are.”
Epictetus Quote: “In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.”
Epictetus Quote: “Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.”
Epictetus Quote: “Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.”
Epictetus Quote: “Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.”
Epictetus Quote: “No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.”
Epictetus Quote: “Remember that the divine order is intelligent and fundamentally good. Life is not a series of random, meaningless episodes, but an ordered, elegant whole that follows ultimately comprehensible laws.”
Epictetus Quote: “Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.”
Epictetus Quote: “Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.”
Epictetus Quote: “Each man’s life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.”
Epictetus Quote: “Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.”
Epictetus Quote: “The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.”
Epictetus Quote: “If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.”
Epictetus Quote: “God save me from fools with a little philosophy – no one is more difficult to reach.”
Epictetus Quote: “You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.”
Epictetus Quote: “It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.”
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