Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
- Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- 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
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
- Epictetus
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
- Epictetus
Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
- Epictetus
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
- Epictetus
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
- Epictetus
