If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.

When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.

Be 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.

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.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.