"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!’."
"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it."
"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."
"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."
"As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new."