“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”

“If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”

“Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, “He who is content.”

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”

“I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?”

“Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.”

“We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.”