1 - Is it not a mistake to use the impressions presented to you in a random and senseless way? Epictetus, D1.7 

2 - If you don’t keep track of what happens in your own soul, you cannot avoid unhappiness. M. Aurelius, M2.8 

3 - True wisdom consists in not moving away from nature but in following it and behaving according to the laws and models of nature. Seneca, On Happiness. 3 

4 - If you ask me what makes a person good, I can only say that it is found in the quality of choices they make. Epictetus, D1.8 

5 - No one can stop you from being in accordance with nature. M. Aurelius, M2.9 

6 - When we have driven away all things that excite and alarm us, an unbroken calm and freedom will follow. Seneca, On Happiness. 3 

7 - Why identify ourselves with the place that our body was dropped off at birth? Epictetus, D1.9 

8 - A sin committed in search of pleasure deserves harsher rebuke than a sin committed out of pain. M. Aurelius, M2.10 

9 - The highest good is a mind that despises the accidents of fortune and takes pleasure in virtue. Seneca, On Happiness. 4 

10 - Why should you fear any human condition? Epictetus, D1.9 

11 - Living and dying, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty and the like happen to good and bad people alike. M. Aurelius, M2.11 

12 - On the day a person becomes proof against pleasure, he also becomes proof against pain. Seneca, On Happiness. 4 

13 - Your stay here is brief and easy enough to endure for people with your level of understanding. Epictetus, D1.9 

14 - How can something that does not damage your character damage you? M. Aurelius, M2.11 

15 - Happy is a person who uses reason, and he neither hopes nor fears. Seneca, On Happiness. 5 

16 - Why cry and complain? Why flatter or envy others? Epictetus, D1.9 

17 - We have the mental powers to help us understand how quickly things vanish. M. Aurelius, M2.12 

18 - You cannot be considered happy if you are not influenced by what is true. Seneca, On Happiness. 5 

19 - It is silly and superfluous to get from another person what you can get for yourself. Epictetus, D1.9 

20 - What is divine deserves our reverence for its excellence. M. Aurelius. M2.13 

21 - It is insanity to choose evil over good. Seneca, On Happiness. 6 

22 - If you don’t realize that no one is unhappy because of someone else, you are just a dead body with a little blood. Epictetus, D1.9 

23 - What is human deserves our goodwill because it is like us. M. Aurelius, M2.13 

24 - A happy person is one who can make the right judgment in all things. Seneca, On Happiness. 6 

25 - If we pursue self-development as diligently as people after power pursue their schemes we will get somewhere. Epictetus, D1.10 

26 - You cannot lose any other life than the one you are living now. M. Aurelius, M2.14 

27 - No one can live honourably without living cheerfully or live cheerfully without living honourably. Seneca, On Happiness. 7 

28 - Where there is ignorance, there is a need for teaching and learning. Epictetus, D1.11 

29 - The present moment is the same for everyone. Once you lose it, it is not yours any more. M. Aurelius, M2.7 

30 - Virtue is a lofty quality, sublime, royal, unconquerable, untiring. Pleasure is low, slavish, weak and perishable. Seneca, On Happiness. 7 

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