"Good and evil, in his view, come only from those things that progress from our will."

"What would it be like to be a sheep? To have no reason, no sense of shame, to be driven by instinct alone? It would be terrible, wouldn't it?"

"Difficulties are things that show what men are."

"If someone is able to make you angry, then he is your master."

"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."