Christopher

“Whenever someone does you a wrong or speaks ill of you, remember that he is doing what he thinks is proper. He can’t possibly be guided by what appears right to you, but only by what appears right to him. So if he sees things wrongly, he is the one who is hurt, because he is the one who has been deceived. . . . Starting from this reasoning, you will be mild toward whoever insults you. Say each time, “So it seemed to him.” Epictetus, Enchiridion”
― Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

“Epicureanism was devised specifically as a “salvation” philosophy, a positive way of escape from a most unpleasant social and political environment. So it became imperative, in a positive sense, for the Epicureans to imitate the perfect serenity and self-sufficiency of their own idealized gods, who were actually a psychological projection of the kind of beings they themselves wanted to be.”
― Epicurus, The Philosophy of Epicurus

“sense data are what they are, and they are infallible, being mechanically transmitted to us by atomic images from the outer world. They may be overlaid with misleading interpretations and lead to “false opinions,” 39 but they are true if confirmed by close inspection or if they are not contradicted.”
― Epicurus, The Philosophy of Epicurus

“true justice is paying for something once; injustice is paying for it over and over again.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom