Epictetus

Quote link. Other quotes about: understand hate fear child: "A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy words lies: "All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."
Quote link.: "Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life mind: "Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope rich: "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
Quote link.: "Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "Difficulties are things that show what men are."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god men: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: born: "Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot."
Quote link.: "First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."
Quote link.: "First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise: "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger nothing wish: "If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger god day: "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."
Quote link.: "In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man: "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power rest: "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
Quote link.: "Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first time answer: "No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "No man is free who is not master of himself."
Quote link.: "Only the educated are free."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little heaven: "Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater."
Quote link.: "Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent."
Quote link.: "Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life wish: "Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy happiness live little man: "The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good lies: "The good or ill of a man lies within his own will."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power happiness: "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason alone: "To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported."
Quote link.: "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe people man: "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."
Quote link.: "Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy first think: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god never light need alone: "When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing"