If you wish to be a writer, write.
Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things:
It is a universal law — have no illusion — that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.
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.
Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Nature has given to men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.
All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus
Only the educated are free.
We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then yo...
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. IX
He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
First say to yourself what you would beand then do what you have to do.
no man is free until he s a master of himself!!