Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.
EpictetusSuffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
EpictetusIt is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
EpictetusWe must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.
Epictetus