Marcus Aurelius·180 ADExternal things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.
Marcus Aurelius·170 ADVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Epictetus·125 ADIt is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. For example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have appeared so to Socrates; but the judgment that death is terrible — that is the terrible thing.
It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. For example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have appeared so to Socrates; but the judgment that death is terrible — that is the terrible thing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Only the educated are free.
