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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

No person is free who is not master of himself.

No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!’.

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

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

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

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.