Epictetus

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

You will be an admirable person, if you care for nothing but your own will.

Every difficulty in life is a chance for us to turn inward and to discover the resources we possess to deal with that difficulty. The resources are not without, but within.

We are not to be like sheep, who, when they have filled themselves, stand and gaze, and bring nothing home but their pasture; but we should rather be like bees, which both fly and collect, and bring home honey.

No man can rob us of our will.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which determines how we will act.

To make a good man, you must first make a good citizen.

What, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? Tranquillity, fearlessness, freedom.

If you wish for nothing, you will be free.

The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men.

If you wish to be good, know that you are bad.

The true man is one who wills to be a man, and he who wills to be a man is a man.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think more accurately, to be less of a slave to your passions, to be more tranquil and self-possessed. Speeches are one thing, life another.

A man's master is he who has power over what the man wishes or does not wish, to secure or to take away.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

If you want to be a man, or a woman, and do what is proper to a human being, do not go to others and ask, 'Am I a human being?'

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Never say about anything, 'I have lost it,' but only, 'I have given it back.'

To receive benefits is to lose liberty.

If you want to be a writer, write.