Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.