Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EpictetusWe are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
EpictetusBe not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."
Epictetus