Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

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.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.