Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EpictetusTo make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.
EpictetusWhoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
Epictetus