"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."
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will."
"Only the educated are free."
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
"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!’."