Epictetus — "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."

"Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths."

"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 h…"

"If you wish to improve, be content to appear foolish or stupid."

"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."