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

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

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

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