No great thing is created suddenly.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Only the educated are free.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

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.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, “He who is content.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

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

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness

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.