Quotes

Whoever wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others.

If toil is set before you, you will find endurance.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses.

Immediately prescribe some character and some form to yourself, which you shall observe both when you are alone and when you meet with men.

When a man irritates you, know that it is your own opinion which has irritated you.

Your duty is to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

It is not he who reviles you or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion about these things as being insulting.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another nor himself.

Are you not ashamed that you care for wealth, reputation and honour, but do not care for wisdom, truth and your own soul?

Those who practise philosophy in the right way are in training for dying.