Epictetus Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

  Epictetus

  Power, Suffering, Trying

• I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can anyone hinder me from going into exile with a smile? The master threatens to chain me: what say you? Chain me? My leg you will chain--yes, but not my will--no, not even Zeus can conquer that.

  Epictetus

  Suffering, Legs, Conquer

• To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

  Epictetus

  Fate, Self, Cities

• When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

  Epictetus

  Men, Suffering, Unhappy

• What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

  Epictetus

  Suffering, Thyself

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