The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens. " Epictetus
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.