Epictetus

• Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
• Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
• First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
• Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
• Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
• He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.
• He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
• He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
• If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
• If you wish to be a writer, write.
• It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
• It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
• It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
• Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
• Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
• Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.
• Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
• Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
• No man is free who is not master of himself.
• Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
• One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
• People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
• Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
• Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
• The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
• The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
• There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
• There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
• We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
• Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.