What Disturbs People's Minds Are Not Events

Difficulty Shows What Men Are.

To Epictetus, All External Events Are Determined By Fate, And Are Thus Beyond Our Control, But We Can Accept Whatever Happens Calmly And Dispassionately. Individuals, However, Are Responsible For Their Own Actions Which They Can Examine And Control Through Rigorous Self-discipline. Suffering Arises From Trying To Control What Is Uncontrollable, Or From Neglecting What Is Within Our Power. As Part Of The Universal City That Is The Universe, Human Beings Have A Duty Of Care To All Fellow Humans. The Person Who Followed These Precepts Would Achieve Happiness.

Nothing Is In Reality Either Pleasant Or Unpleasant By Nature But All Things Become So Through Habit

It's So Simple Really: If You Say You're Going To Do Something, Do It. If You Start Something, Finish It.

Ruin And Recovering Are Both From Within.