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

— Epictetus

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

— Epictetus

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

— Epictetus

No man is free who is not master of himself.

— Epictetus

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

— Epictetus

Only the educated are free.

— Epictetus

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

— Epictetus

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

— Epictetus