Epictetus

Seek not to have things happen as you wish, but wish things to happen as they do, and you will have peace.

If you want to be rich, do not add to your possessions but subtract from your desires.

Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Accept what is outside your control. Willingly do what needs to be done.

Remember that if you are doing something for your own good, you must not be ashamed of it, even if the mob is going to misinterpret it.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

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

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. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.