Difficulty shows what men are. Auteur: Epictetus Copy Quote More from Epictetus “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about …” “To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond o…” “Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we mayhear from others twic…”