Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

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

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

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!’.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.