No Great Thing Is Created Suddenly.

What Ought One To Say Then As Each Hardship Comes? I Was Practicing For This, I Was Training For This.

You Can Be Invincible, If You Enter Into No Contest In Which It Is Not In Your Power To Conquer.

-….when Things Seem To Have Reached That Stage, Merely Say “i Won’t Play Any Longer”, And Take Your Departure; But If You Stay, Stop Lamenting.

When A Youth Was Giving Himself Airs In The Theatre And Saying, 'i Am Wise, For I Have Conversed With Many Wise Men,' Epictetus Replied, 'i Too Have Conversed With Many Rich Men, Yet I Am Not Rich!’.

Every Habit And Faculty Is Preserved And Increased By Correspondent Actions, As The Habit Of Walking, By Walking; Of Running, By Running.