"You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens; for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses." - Epictetus
"You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens; for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses." - Epictetus
"Forget everything else.
Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.
The past has been lived already, and the future is impossible to see.
The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.
Small as even the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead." - Marcus Aurelius
"Remember from now on whenever something tends to make you unhappy, draw on this principle: 'This is no misfortune, but bearing with it bravely is a blessing.'" - Epictetus
"I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, the do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live." - Epictetus