"God has entrusted me with myself."

"Isn't reading a kind of preparation for life?' But life is composed of things other than books. It is as if an athlete, on entering the stadium, were to complain that he's not outside exercising.This was the goal of your exercise, of your weights, your practice ring and your training partners."

"Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them."

"A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it."

"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."

"It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire."

"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."

"It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body, for it is better to die than to live badly."

"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."

"Bear and forbear."

"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."

"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."

"Silence is safer than speech."

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."

"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."

"If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."

"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."

"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."

"Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee."

"Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it."

"The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing."

"Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things and thence proceed to greater."

"We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things."

"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has."

"Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?"

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."

"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower."

"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."

"So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games."

"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."

"It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens."

"In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one."

"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."

"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."

"We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free."

"The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself."

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."

"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."

"If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked."

"Freedom is the right to live as we wish."

"Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater."

"When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?"