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“It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.”
― Epictetus, Enchiridion

“If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.”
― Epictetus, Enchiridion...

“Remember then that if you think the things which are by nature slavish to be free, and the things which are in the power of others to be your own, you will be hindered, you will lament, you will be disturbed, you will blame both gods and men: but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another's, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm. If”
― Epictetus, Enchiridion: Filibooks Classics

“Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living