Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.