Epictetus — "What is the result of all this? To be free, serene, and happy."

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

"As long as you are a human being, you are a member of a great whole, and you have a part to play. If you play it badly, you will be hissed off the stage; if well, applauded."

"When you have said 'Tomorrow I will begin to attend,' you must be told that you are saying this: 'Today I will be shameless, disregardful of time and place, mean; it will be in the power of others to …"

"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 want to be a philosopher, prepare to be mocked."