Epictetus

Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50–c. 138)

· 0050 - 0138 · 121 kata bijak

Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.

Epictetus

Nasihat

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Kehidupan

Practice yourself, for heavens sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonourable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Perjuangan

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

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.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Pendidikan

For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.

🖼 Gambar

Epictetus

Nasihat

Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.

🖼 Gambar