Epictetus Quotes

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy.

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

I'm just a swell guy. No, that's a ridiculous notion - if you're being an asshole to people, you're being an asshole, that's all there is to it. It can't be rationalized because you wrote something worthwhile. First obligation is to other people.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune, to use their voices to make things better. Beyond that, I'd tell them just to be kind.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

People who see themselves as victims are known not to be sensitive to the suffering of others.

I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.