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Epictetus 175
philosopher from Ancient Greece 50–138Related quotes

“You must know yourself first instead of following blindly like sheep.”

On families not always being a bedrock of support in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” https://www.thenation.com/article/laila-lalami-interview-the-other-americans/ in The Nation (2019 Apr 23)

“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.”
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

“The first step of knowing yourself is being fearless to make mistakes.”

“The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.”

Source: The Complete Poems