Epicetus

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

"I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?"

"Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil."

"When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it."

"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."

"There is nothing good or evil save in the will."

"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write." - Discourses

"It is difficulties that show what men are." - Discourses

"Only the educated are free." - Discourses

"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting." - Encheiridion

"Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not." - Encheiridion

"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life." - Encheiridion

"Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others. If he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave." - Encheiridion

"Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit." - Encheiridion

"Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak." - fragment