Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
— Epictetus
Enchiridion
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9 quotes on control from the Stoic tradition.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
Enchiridion
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Enchiridion, Chapter I
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Enchiridion
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Discourses, Book 1
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Discourses, Book 4
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Meditations, Book IV
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Meditations, Book 4
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter 83
He is most powerful who has power over himself.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter 90