Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.

It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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

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.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.