Epictetus

55 AD - Born a slave in Hierapolis, Asia Minor.

89 AD - 95 AD - He was exiled along with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian sometime.

90 AD - He was expelled with the other philosophers by Domitian, who was irritated by the support and encouragement which the opposition to his tyranny found amongst the adherents of Stoicism.

135 AD - He died in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.

• "No man is free who is not master of himself."
• "Difficulties are things that show what men are."
• "No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
• "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
• "Only the educated are free."