You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

To 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.

When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.

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