Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

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

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.