Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EpictetusKnow you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EpictetusNothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.
Epictetus