Quotes from Epictetus

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness. If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way.

Don't give in to second thoughts, because no one who wavers will make progress.

Look at the matter in this way. Since we can see that a dog is fitted by nature to do one thing, and a horse to do another, and a nightingale, if you like, to do yet another, it wouldn't be absurd for one to declare overall that each of them is beautiful precisely in so far as it best fulfils its own nature; and since each is different in nature, it would seem to me that each of them is beautiful in a different way. Isn't that so? The student agreed.

well as the others, namely, the faculty of reason. Reason is unique among the faculties assigned

Whenever we do something wrong, then, from now on we will not blame anything except the opinion on which it's based; and we will try to root out wrong opinions with more determination than we remove tumours or infections from the body.

19] 'My brother shouldn't have treated me in this way.' Indeed he shouldn't, but it's for him to see to that. For my part, however he treats me, I should conduct myself towards him as I ought. For that is my business, and the rest is not my concern. In this no one can hinder me, while everything else is subject to hindrance.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.