Epictetus Quotes About Blame

Quotes about: Blame

• An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Men, Ignorant

• And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

  Epictetus

  Communication, Athlete, People

  Epictetus (1925). “The Discourses as reported by Arrian: the Manual, and fragments”

• If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

  Epictetus

  Men, Thinking, Blame

• Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

  Epictetus

  Men, Ideas, Blame

• It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

  Epictetus

  Self, Blame, Ill

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

• It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

  Epictetus

  Men, Blame, Instruction

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.3, Courier Corporation

• These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

• Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

  Epictetus

  Progress, Blame, Remember

  Epictetus (1916). “The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings”

• When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

  Epictetus

  Principles, Faults, Blame

• A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Men, Novices

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