Epictetus
Epictetus lived in the years c. 50 – c. 130 CE. Greco-Roman philosopher, stoic.
- “Bear and forbear”
- latin: [Sustine et abstine]
- description: words attibuted to Epictetus, probably basing on Epictetus, Enchiridion
- “If you wish to make progress, then be content to appear senseless and foolish in externals, do not make it your wish to give the appearance of knowing anything”
- source: Epictetus, Enchiridion, 13
- “Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things”
- source: Epictetus, Enchiridion, 5
- “Think more often of God than you breathe”
- source: unknown
- “First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak”
- “Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope”
- source: Epictetus, Enchiridion, 89
- “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”
- source: Arrian, Discourses, 2
- “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters”
- source: Epictetus, Enchiridion
- “When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger”
