Epictetus Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

  Epictetus

  Love, True Friend, Lying

• Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

  Epictetus

  Evil, Betrayed, Libertarian

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.179

• There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Evil, Religion

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.221

• 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”

• The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

  Epictetus

  Evil, Special, Principles

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.295

• Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Exercise, Evil

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 8,

• Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

  Epictetus

  Evil, Religion, Doe

• The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

  Epictetus

  Essence, Evil, Disposition

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.133

• Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

  Epictetus

  Two, Evil, Principles

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.6

• 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

• Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

  Epictetus

  Evil, Soul, Vices

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.341

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