"You become what you give your attention to."
-- Epictetus"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."
-- Epictetus"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope."
-- Epictetus"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."
-- Epictetus"I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it."
-- Epictetus"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things."
-- Epictetus"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
-- Epictetus"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
-- Epictetus"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
-- Epictetus"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
-- Epictetus"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
-- Epictetus"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
-- Epictetus"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."
-- Epictetus"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."
-- Epictetus"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
-- Epictetus"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
-- Epictetus"No man is free who is not master of himself."
-- Epictetus"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
-- Epictetus"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
-- Epictetus"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole."
-- Plato"Knowledge is the food of the soul."
-- Plato"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy."
-- Plato"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
-- Plato"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."
-- Plato
