The Complete Works Quotes

“It is playing the game well that counts, not winning or losing, because although an action is up to us, its consequences are not.”
― Epictetus, The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, & Fragments

“Anyone who’s dissatisfied with the circumstances assigned him by fortune is unskilled in the art of living, while anyone who nobly endures his circumstances and makes reasonable use of what they have to offer deserves to be called a good person.”
― Epictetus, The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, & Fragments

“you want to have the goods without paying for them, you’re being greedy and stupid.”
― Epictetus, The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, & Fragments