Epictetus

“Just as it is pleasant to you to give an account of your dangers, so it is not equally pleasant to others to hear about them.”

“Be careful not to give occasion for the laughter of others.”

“Avoid swearing, if possible, altogether; if not, as far as you are able.”

“As to pleasures of the body, indulge in them as little as possible.”

“When you have decided that a thing ought to be done, never shun the doing of it.”

“Even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it.”

“For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing.”

“But if it is right, why should you fear those who censure you wrongly?”

“Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself, abide by them as if they were laws.”

“And as if you would be guilty of impiety by violating any of them.”

“How long will you put off thinking yourself worthy of the highest improvement?”

“You are no longer a child, but a grown man.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Resolve to live as a person of dignity and virtue.”

“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my choice.”

“Sickness is an impediment to the body, but not to the will.”

“Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will.”

“Say this on every occasion, and you will find that an impediment to one thing is not an impediment to another.”

“Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen.”