Quotes by Epictetus
Epictetus was born a slave in Phrygia and taught philosophy in Rome and, after the emperor Domitian expelled the philosophers, in Nicopolis in Greece. He wrote nothing himself. His pupil Arrian recorded the Discourses and condensed them into the Enchiridion, the handbook Marcus Aurelius and countless later readers kept close.
Men are disturbed, not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.
Of things some are in our power, and others are not.