Epictetus quotes

If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be contented, then, in everything, with being a philosopher; and, if you wish to seem so likewise to any one, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you.
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The Works of Epictetus: The Enchiridion, or Manual (translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson), 1866 · chapter XXIII, p. 383
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Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1866 (Higginson's translation, based on Elizabeth Carter's; copyright 1865)
Never say of anything, “I have lost it”; but, “I have restored it.”
AttributedEpictetus
Source
The Works of Epictetus: The Enchiridion, or Manual (translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson), 1866 · chapter XI, p. 379
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Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1866 (Higginson's translation, based on Elizabeth Carter's; copyright 1865)
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
AttributedEpictetus
Source
The Works of Epictetus: The Enchiridion, or Manual (translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson), 1866 · chapter VIII, p. 378
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Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1866 (Higginson's translation, based on Elizabeth Carter's; copyright 1865)
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things. Thus death is nothing terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates.
AttributedEpictetus
Source
The Works of Epictetus: The Enchiridion, or Manual (translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson), 1866 · chapter V, p. 377
Read at
Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1866 (Higginson's translation, based on Elizabeth Carter's; copyright 1865)