Status Updates From The Enchiridion of Epictetus

- There is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested

- If you don’t act right, shun the action itself. But if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly?
- Unless you perfectly understand the principle from which anyone acts, how should you know if he acts ill?

- If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don’t make excuses about what is said of you. But answer, “well he does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these”

- To me, all omens are lucky if I will them so
- Whichever of these things happens, it is in my control to derive advantage from it
- Who can give to another, the things which he has not himself?

- Remove aversion from all things at are not in our control
- Men are disturbed not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things
- If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things, do not wish to be thought to know anything