"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things."
-- Epictetus"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
-- Epictetus"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
-- Epictetus"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
-- Epictetus"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
-- Epictetus"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
-- Epictetus"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
-- Epictetus"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."
-- Epictetus"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."
-- Epictetus"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
-- Epictetus"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
-- Epictetus"No man is free who is not master of himself."
-- Epictetus"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
-- Epictetus"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
-- Epictetus"He who obeys does not listen to himself."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
-- Friedrich Nietzsche"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right, especially when one is right."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche"He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
