There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
— Epictetus
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
God has entrusted me with myself.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Only the educated are free.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
