Epictetus: "Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, bu..."

Why This Quote Matters

Epictetus takes something familiar, like disturbed, and frames it just differently enough that you see it with new eyes. That shift is the point.

Write it down by hand somewhere. There is something different about that act. Words stick in a new way when they move through your fingers.

There is a reason some words last. These are those kinds of words.