One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
EpictetusMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
EpictetusVery little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.
EpictetusIn practice it is death that works so seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep
Friedrich NietzscheIt is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
Gregory BatesonThe critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.
Carl Cohen