Epictetus Quotes

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with anger and hatred. And that would be Trump's great victory: to turn us into replicas of him, just on the other side of a wall screen. I refuse to let me or my family or my movement or my friends be turned into the opposite of Trump. I want to be the antidote for Trump.

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.