Epictetus - LIFE CHANGING Quotes - STOICISM

if anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer he was ignorant to my other faults else he would not have mentioned these alone [Music] only the educated are free [Music] it's not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters [Music] we have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants men are disturbed not by things but by the

view which they take of them [Music] first say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do [Music] there is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will if you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid [Music] no man is free who is not master of himself [Music] here's a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has man is not worried by real

problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems there is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will [Music] the key is to keep company only with people who uplift you whose presence calls forth your best it's not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters he who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at other people's views and troubles can be contagious don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative unproductive attitudes through your associations

with others freedom is the only worthy goal in life it is one by disregarding things that lie beyond our control circumstances don't make the man they only reveal him to herself [Music] it is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows people are not disturbed by things but by the views they take of them to accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of Education to accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun to accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete [Music] you are a

little soul carrying around combs I'll ask those who think they can damage they do not know who I am they do not know what I think they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with with Chinese [Music] first learn the meaning of what you say and then speak [Music] attach yourself to what is spiritually superior regardless of what other people think or do hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you the greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it skillful pilots gained their reputation from storms and

tempest s-- no man is free who is not master of himself he is a wise man who does not grieve for things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has seek not the good in external things seek it in yourselves [Music] do not try to see wise to us [Music] don't see to have events happen as you wish but wish them to happen as they do have and all will be well with you [Music] a ship should not ride on a single anchor no life on a single hope [Music] no first who

you are and then adorn yourself accordingly if you would be a reader read if a writer write events do not just happen but arrive by appointment asked who is the rich man a pig Titus replied he who is content either God wants to abolish evil and cannot or he can but does not want to we are not disturbed by what happens to us but by our thoughts about what happens to us [Music] no you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake but for the sake of having done right it is better to

die of hunger having lived without grief and fear and to live with a troubled spirit amid abundance [Music] small-minded people blame others average people blame themselves the wise see all blame as foolishness give me by all means the shorter a noble life instead of one that is longer but of less count [Music] no great thing is created suddenly men are not afraid of things but of how they view them [Music] if someone speaks badly of you do not defend yourself against the accusations but reply you obviously don't know about my other vices otherwise you would

have mentioned these as well [Music] on the occasion of every accident that befalls you remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use you may fetter my leg but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will difficulty shows what men are no great thing is created son any more than a bunch of grapes or a fake if you tell me that you desire a fake I answer that there must be time let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripe keep the prospect of death exile and

all such apparent tragedies before you every day especially death and you will never have an object thought or desire anything to access [Music] a prick teachers being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered by preparing himself to live the best life that he can what concerns me is not the way things are but the way people think things are [Music] don't live by your own rules but in harmony with nature [Music] the essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on

external things [Music] imagine for yourself a character immortal personality whose example you determined to follow in private as well as in public [Music] whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening [Music] if you would cure anger do not feed say to yourself I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day when you reach that day's offer sacrifices Thanksgiving to the gods if you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things don't wish to

be thought to know anything and even if you appear to be somebody important to others distrust yourself or it is difficult to both keep your Faculty of choice in a state comfortable to nature and at the same time acquire external things but while you are careful about one you must of necessity neglect the other any person capable of angering you becomes your master he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him if anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you do not make excuses about what is said

of you but answer he was ignorant to my other faults else he would not have mentioned these alone only the educated are free it's not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters [Music] we have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak [Music] wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few ones men are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of them [Music] first say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have

to do [Music] there is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power if you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and student no man is free who is not master of himself [Music] he is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has