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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
— André Malraux
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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
— Epictetus
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The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…
— Epictetus
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
— Epictetus
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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
— Maya Angelou
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
— Epictetus
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
— Epictetus
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
— Epictetus