Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. E
  4. Epictetus
  5. Evil

Epictetus Quotes about Evil

All Epictetus Quotes Achievement Adversity Anger Anxiety Appearance Art Attitude Blame Business Challenges Character Children Choices Communication Confidence Contentment Cooking Death Desire Determination Difficulty Discipline Duty Dying Eating Education Effort Evil quotes Exercise Failure Feelings Fighting Focus Food Freedom Giving God Gratitude Greatness Happiness Happy Harmony Heart Heaven Honor Hurt Inspiration Inspirational Judgement Judgment Justice Kindness Knowledge Learning Life Love Lying Money Motivational Pain Patience Philosophy Pleasure Positive Positive Thinking Power Praise Progress Purpose Reality Religion Responsibility Running Silence Sorrow Soul Suffering Time Training Tranquility Truth Understanding Victory Virtue Waiting Wife Wisdom Worry Writing
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus
Evil, Betrayed, Libertarian
Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.179

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Epictetus
Evil, Religion, Doe

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Epictetus
Evil, Special, Principles
Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.295

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Epictetus
Evil, Soul, Vices
Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.341

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

Epictetus
Death, Evil, Use
Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Epictetus
Two, Evil, Principles
Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.6

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

Epictetus
Death, Evil, Dying
Epictetus, Mary Wilder Tileston (1877). “Selections from Epictetus”

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

Epictetus
Essence, Evil, Disposition
Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.133

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Epictetus
Philosophical, Evil, Religion
Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.221

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

Epictetus
Philosophy, Exercise, Evil
"Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 8,

You May Also Like: