Epictetus
Epictetus
Epictetuswas a Greek-speaking Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia, and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in north-western Greece for the rest of his life. His teachings were written down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses and Enchiridion...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
exercise evil decision
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.
evil religion want
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
death evil dying
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
evil soul body
Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
essence evil certain
The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
two evil principles
Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
death evil use
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.
philosophical evil religion
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
evil special able
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
evil betrayed libertarian
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
adversity against antagonist cannot case difficulty god men remember rough
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
believe educated education free ought people rather
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free
disturbed men opinion opinions
Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
disturbed men men-and-women views
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them