Epictetus:
(50 – c. 130 AD).
Stoic philosopher and along with Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, among others, is counted among the leading figures in Stoic philosophy from the first centuries AD.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
It’s not things that upset us but our judgements about things.
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
We should enjoy happiness when we have it, like the fruits in autumn.
