Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

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

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

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!’.