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• O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent?
  But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?...
• 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....
• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable
  but everything reasonable may be supported. -- Epictetus (c....
• The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Courage, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxix...
• Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xx...
• Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you
  for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them....
• In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taugh
  but in life there are many things to draw us aside....
• Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- That Courage is not inconsistent with Caution, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. i...
• If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxv...