Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

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