Epictetus quotes.

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”

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

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little, neither wishing nor expecting more.”

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”

“Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.”

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.”

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

“Only the educated are free.”

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

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