It is difficulties that show what men are.Epictetus: Discourses
Conversation
Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.Epictetus
Education
Only the educated are free.Epictetus: Discourses
Habit
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit.Epictetus: Encheiridion
Insults and Abuse
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.Epictetus: Encheiridion
Problems
Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not.Epictetus: Encheiridion
Resignation
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.Epictetus: Encheiridion
Self-Reliance
Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others. If he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.Epictetus: Encheiridion
Writing and Writers
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.Epictetus: Discourses
