Quotes from Epictetus
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
- Epictetus
To pay homage to beauty is to admire nature; to admire nature is to worship God.
- Epictetus
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
- Epictetus
I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
- Epictetus
If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.
- Epictetus
Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
- Epictetus
Think of God more often than you breathe.
- Epictetus
Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?
- Epictetus
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- Epictetus
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus