Source: Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments
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Source: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.”
Source: Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments
“No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.”
“God has made all men to be happy.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.”
“It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.”
Source: Enchiridion
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”
“The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
Source: All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
Source: The Enchiridion