Whenever someone helps or hinders you, or praises or criticizes you, remember that they see you only through the lens of their own impressions. If th… - Epictetus

Whenever someone helps or hinders you, or praises or criticizes you, remember that they see you only through the lens of their own impressions. If they act or speak from a warped perspective, they hurt themselves — not you.

Every day you should put the ideas in action that protect against attachment to externals such as individual people, places or institutions – even your own body.

That is the way things are weighed and disagreements settled — when standards are established. Philosophy aims to test and set such standards. And the wise man is advised to make use of their findings right way.

When I see someone in anxiety, I say to myself, What can it be that this fellow wants? For if he did not want something that was outside of his control, how could he still remain in anxiety?