Author: Epictetus

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Practice yourself, for heavens sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.