It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. ~ Epictetus

Difficulty shows what men are.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

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.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

No man is free until he s a master of himself!!

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Don't live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

No person is free who is not master of himself.

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things.

What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard?— It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things:

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around 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.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.