Epictetus

Books are the training weights of the mind.

Epictetus

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Epictetus

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Epictetus

Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

Epictetus

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.

Epictetus

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

Epictetus

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

Epictetus

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

Epictetus

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus