"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master." (Epictetus)
"As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them." (Epictetus, "Discourses")
"Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within." (Epictetus)
"He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God." (Epictetus, "Discourses")
"In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it." (Epictetus)
"In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside." (Epictetus, "Discourses")
"It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth." (Epictetus, "Discourses")
"It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens." (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)
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." (Epictetus)
"No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage." (Epictetus)
"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." (Epictetus, "Discourses")
"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." (Epictetus)
"The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will." (Epictetus, "Of Courage")
"Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them." (Epictetus)
"To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own." (Epictetus, "Discourses")
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." (Epictetus)
"You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be." (Epictetus)
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