Quotes by Epictetus

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

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.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Only the educated are free.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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.