We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.