Zitat des Tages von Epictetus:
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
If you wish to be a writer, write.
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.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Silence is safer than speech.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
God has entrusted me with myself.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes 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.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.