The Stoic Magazine Library

1 - What if my leg is crippled? Do you want to blame the universe for it? Epictetus, D1.12

1 - There is nothing superior to reason. Epictetus, D1.17

1 - You are invincible if nothing outside your will disturbs you.  Epictetus, D1.18 

1 - It is difficulties that show what a person is made of.  Epictetus, D1.24 

1 - Your good faith and sense of shame are your own. Epictetus, D1.25 

1  - If one wants to be a philosopher, one should first become aware of one’s governing principle. (Epictetus, D1.26) 

1 - It is not as though if you go astray, someone else will pay the penalty. If you keep this in mind, you will not be angry or upset with anyone, won’t insult, criticize, hate, or be offended by anyone. [Epictetus, D 1.28.] 

1 - Everything that is not under our control is neither good nor bad and therefore nothing to us. [Epictetus, D 2.1] 

1  - If you want to be a person of honor and trust, who can stop you? [Epictetus, D 2.2] 

1 - Then you will say, “I am a scholar, but no one cares”. Yes, because you are a bad and useless human being. [Epictetus, D 2.4]