To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
EpictetusGetting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the worldโฆ Focus on your main duty
EpictetusDoes a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.
Epictetus