"At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it."
- Epictetus ( - c.130)

"Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it my not."
- Epictetus ( - c.130)

"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write."
- Epictetus ( - c.130)

"It is difficulties that show what men are."
- Epictetus ( - c.130)

"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
- Epictetus ( - c.130)

"Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak."
- Epictetus ( - c.130)

"Nothing is in reality eith pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit."
- Epictetus ( - c.130)

"Only the educated are free."
- Epictetus ( - c.130)