"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."
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."
"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will."
"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!’."