Epictetus

We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
– Epictetus

It doesn’t take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason.
– Epictetus

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
– Epictetus

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.
– Epictetus

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

Don’t mind if others don’t share your convictions. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer.
– Epictetus

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
– Epictetus

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
– Epictetus

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