This Is Why We Admire the Stoics – Quote 1

Power does not make you powerful. In fact, what it often does is reveal how *powerless* a person is—powerless over themselves, weak and scared at their core. You can be the emperor or a billionaire, a celebrity or a commander and, it turns out, still be a very small person. You can be beautiful, and to borrow an expression from Epictetus, still be ugly if you make ugly choices.