To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

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

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.