Happiness Belongs To The Self-sufficient.

“Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.”

—Aristotle

“Have more than you show, speak less than you know” —William Shakespeare

“Since I say that this is the case, the person who is practicing to become a philosopher must seek to overcome himself so that he won’t welcome pleasure and avoid pain, so that he won’t love living and fear death, and so that, in the case of money, he won’t honor receiving over giving.”

—Musonius Rufus

“Through discipline comes freedom.”

—Aristotle

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

—Epictetus

“Philosophy teaches that we should be above pleasure and greed. It teaches that we should love frugality and avoid extravagance. It accustoms us to be modest and to control our tongue. It brings about discipline, order, decorum, and on the whole fitting behavior in action and in habit. If these things are present in a human being, they make him dignified and self-controlled.”

—Musonius Rufus