Collected Meditations
Showing 65 quotesOne that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.— Epictetus
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.— Epictetus
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.— Epictetus
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Religion
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.— Epictetus
No greater 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.— Epictetus
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.— Epictetus
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Alone
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.— Epictetus
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Success