Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
-Epictetus
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
-Epictetus
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
-Epictetus
Be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words.
-Epictetus
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man’s own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
-Epictetus
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
-Epictetus
Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
-Epictetus
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
-Epictetus
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
-Epictetus
