On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

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

-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

If you wish to be a writer, write.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

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

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.

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.

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

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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