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• When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
  What would you have, O man? -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxi...
• Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by i
  but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control....
• Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxi...
• When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone
  but God is within, and your genius is within,--and what need have they of light to see what you are doing?...
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning such as read and dispute ostentatiously, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
• No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
  If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time....
• Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little thing
  and thence proceed to greater. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xviii...
• The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That we ought not to be angry with Mankind, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap....
• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...