Epictetus

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

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.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

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...