Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ”

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. ”

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 toward it. ”

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. ”

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ”

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. ”

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? ”

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

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. ”

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. ”