[firefoxman1]

"If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion."

- Epictetus

[wpietri]

He has a point. But clearly Epictetus did not have party-all-night upstairs neighbors with bad taste in music.

Just sayin'.

[djt]

Epictetus was born into slavery, was lame, became a free man somehow, presumably from studying philosophy, then was banned from Rome for being a philosopher.

I'd say he argues the same point as this article in that he was happy regardless of the circumstances of his life.