Epictetus

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Only the educated are free.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

No great thing is created suddenly.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.