Epictetus Quote: Whenever externals are more important to you than your...

Whenever externals are more important to you than your own integrity, then be prepared to serve them the remainder of your life.

— Epictetus

Source: Discourses

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

— Epictetus

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosopher who say that only the educated are free.

— Epictetus

If someone is incapable of distinguishing good things from bad and neutral things from either – well, how could such a person be capable of love? The power to love, then, belongs only to the wise man.

— Epictetus

Source: Discourses - Book II