Epictetus Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

  Epictetus

  Death, Eye, Dying

  "The Handbook of Epictetus".

• Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

  Epictetus

  Death, Evil, Dying

  Epictetus, Mary Wilder Tileston (1877). “Selections from Epictetus”

• In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

  Epictetus

  Death, Pain, Real

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.39

• Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

  Epictetus

  Death, Children, Wife

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

• Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

  Epictetus

  Death, Evil, Use

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

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