Epictetus Quotes About Adversity

Quotes about: Adversity

• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

  Epictetus

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Wisdom

• Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

  Epictetus

  Adversity, People, Littles

• 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.

  Epictetus

  Life, Education, Teaching

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.499, Lulu.com

• As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

  Epictetus

  Adversity, Thinking, Sea

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.54, Courier Corporation

• There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

  Epictetus

  Adversity, Men, Ease

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.168

• In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

  Epictetus

  Friends, Adversity, Prosperity

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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