Epictetus

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach...

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.