“No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.” – Epictetus
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus
“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.” – Epictetus
“No man is free who is not master of himself.” – Epictetus
“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.” – Epictetus
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
“A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.” – Epictetus
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.” – Epictetus
“Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.” – Epictetus
“We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.” – Epictetus
“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.” – Epictetus
“Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!” – Epictetus
“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.” – Epictetus
“Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.” – Epictetus
