Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
There is nothing good or evil save in the 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!’.