Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.