Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus