Dawn Thompson

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”
― Epictetus

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
― Epictetus

“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”
― Epictetus

“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.”
― Epictetus, The Discourses