Please feel free to download, share, and enjoy these memes, featuring quotes from the stoic philosopher, Epictetus.
Stoic Memes: Epictetus Quotes
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Square meme for Instagram
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Square meme for Instagram
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Square meme for Instagram
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Square meme for Instagram
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Square meme for Instagram
Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.
Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.
Square meme for Instagram
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Square meme for Instagram
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Square meme for Instagram
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Square meme for Instagram
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
Square meme for Instagram
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
Square meme for Instagram
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Square meme for Instagram
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
Square meme for Instagram
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Square meme for Instagram
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Square meme for Instagram
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
Square meme for Instagram
To accuse others for one’s own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
To accuse others for one’s own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
Square meme for Instagram
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Square meme for Instagram
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Square meme for Instagram
No man is free who is not master of himself.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Square meme for Instagram
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Square meme for Instagram
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
Square meme for Instagram
It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
Square meme for Instagram
Take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.
Take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.
Square meme for Instagram
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
Square meme for Instagram
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone.
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone.
Square meme for Instagram
Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.
Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.
Square meme for Instagram
If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don’t know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well
If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don’t know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well
Square meme for Instagram
Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.
Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.
Square meme for Instagram
You become what you give your attention to.
You become what you give your attention to.
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
Square meme for Instagram
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes.
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes.
Square meme for Instagram
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Square meme for Instagram
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.
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.
Square meme for Instagram
No great thing is created suddenly.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Square meme for Instagram
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
Square meme for Instagram
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
Square meme for Instagram
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
Square meme for Instagram
Difficulty shows what men are.
Difficulty shows what men are.
Square meme for Instagram
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.
Square meme for Instagram
No man is free who is not master of himself.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Square meme for Instagram
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
Square meme for Instagram
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
Square meme for Instagram
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
Square meme for Instagram
From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do, now.
From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do, now.
Square meme for Instagram
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Square meme for Instagram
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Square meme for Instagram
Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind.
Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind.
Square meme for Instagram
Do not try to seem wise to others.
Do not try to seem wise to others.
Square meme for Instagram
Don’t seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
Don’t seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.