The value of one's life is determined by how much love one gives, not by how much love one has received. - Epictetus

There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.

Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy.

There is one road to peace and happiness (keep the thought near by morning, noon and night): renunciation of externals;