So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.
EpictetusPreach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
EpictetusTags: dieting
Difficulty shows what men are.
EpictetusMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
EpictetusThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
EpictetusIf 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. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other
EpictetusAny person capable of angering you becomes your master;
he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
EpictetusTags: self-deprecation self-deprecating self-deprecating-humor
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may
hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: --
I move not without Thy knowledge!
Tags: faith
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