Epictetus

"Even as bad actors cannot sing alone, but only in chorus: so some cannot walk alone. Man, if thou art aught, strive to walk alone and hold converse with yourself, instead of skulking in the chorus! at…"

"I apply to you to come and hear that you are in evil case; that what deserves your attention most is the last thing to gain it; that you know not good from evil, and are in short a hapless wretch; a f…"

"In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside."

"Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself abide by them as they were laws, and as if you would be guilty of impiety by violating any of them. Don't regard what anyone says of you…"

"If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have m…"

"There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,—that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all."

"Give thyself more diligently to reflection: know thyself: take counsel with the Godhead; without God put thine hand into nothing. ."

"For he who is unmusical is a child in music; he who is without letters is a child in learning; he who is untaught, is a child in life."