The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.
EpictetusMen are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
EpictetusYou may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
EpictetusIt was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.
Epictetus