Quote #5

It is difficulties that show what men are.

More from Epictetus

  1. Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.
  2. The good or ill of man lies within his own will.
  3. No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there…
  4. In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
  5. When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, a…
  6. Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, an…
  7. To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
  8. Only the educated are free.

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