You are a little soul carrying around a corpse
EpictetusNo man is free who is not master of himself.
EpictetusTag: inspirational
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
EpictetusIt is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
EpictetusDon't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
EpictetusGod has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EpictetusWe are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.
EpictetusКойто не умее да владее себе си, той е роб, па ако ще да е владетел на целия свят. Епиктет
EpictetusHow long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.
From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates.
Tag: philosophy-of-life
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
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