Epictetus — "Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but do not sell it for a small p…"

"For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow."

"If you have a mind to be a philosopher, prepare yourself from the first to be laughed at, to be sneered at by the multitude."

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

"When you have decided that you are going to take a bath, be careful how you act, and don't make a scene."

"It is better to starve to death in freedom from grief and fear, than to live in plenty with perturbation."