If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
EpictetusDon't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
EpictetusBe free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
EpictetusDo nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.
Epictetus