Epictetus

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

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

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.