From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.

Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

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

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!’.