If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

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!’.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.