Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus Quotes

“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”
― Epictetus, Discourses, Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus

“It is not possible that what is by nature free can be disturbed by anything else, or hindered by any other thing than by itself. But it is a man's own opinions which disturb him. For when the tyrant says to a man, I will chain your leg, he who values his leg says, Do not; have pity. But he who values his own will says, If it appears more advantageous to you, chain it.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus