All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
~ Epictetus
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
God has entrusted me with myself.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
