Quotes

It's only the women of ripe age who understand the art of love.

- Aristophanes, "The Ecclesiazusae"

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

- Aesop, "Fables"

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice.  Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose.  Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

- Epictetus, "Enchiridion"

But what says Zeus?  "Epictetus, had it been possible I should have made both this paltry body and this small estate of thine free and unhampered.  But as it is - let it not escape thee - this body is not thine own, but only clay cunningly compounded.

- Epictetus, "Discourses"

Peace with justice and honor is the fairest and most profitable of possesions, but with disgrace and cowardice it is the most infamous and harmful of all.

- Polybius, "Histories"

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

- Sophocles, fragment