Epictetus (55-135) quotes

• All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
• Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
• First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
• Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
• He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
• If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
• It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
• Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
• The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
• The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
• There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
• We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.