You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.- Epictetus
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
