Epictetus — "Freedom is not the right to do what you want, but the power to do what is right."

"If your mind is not polluted by these things, you will always be healthy."

"We are not to be disturbed by the things that happen, but by the opinions which we have of them."

"Some things are in our control and others are not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, prope…"

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."

"If you want to be a man of honour, you must be a man of honour. If you want to be a good man, you must be a good man. If you want to be a wise man, you must be a wise man. If you want to be a fool, yo…"