Epictetus

The judgement that we are about to die is not oppressive; dying is not oppressive.

— Epictetus mortality

Discourses 2.1

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

— Epictetus control

Fragments, in Stobaeus 1.22

If you want any good, get it from yourself.

— Epictetus freedom

Discourses 1.29

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

— Epictetus virtue

Discourses (paraphrase)

Bear and forbear.

— Epictetus adversity

Fragments, in Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 17.19

Be silent for the most part, or speak only what is necessary, and in few words.

— Epictetus action

Enchiridion 33

When we are invited to a banquet, we take what is set before us; and were one to call upon his host to set fish or tarts before him, he would be deemed absurd. Yet, in the world, we ask the gods for what they do not give, and that, though they have given us so many things.

— Epictetus fate

Enchiridion 15

He is free who lives as he wishes to live.

— Epictetus freedom

Discourses 4.1.1

A man cannot learn what he thinks he already knows.

— Epictetus action

Discourses 2.17.1