It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
— Epictetus
Fragments
Self Mastery
4 quotes on self mastery from the Stoic tradition.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
— Epictetus
Discourses, Book II
No man is free who is not master of himself.
— Epictetus
Fragments
He is most powerful who has power over himself.
— Seneca
Letters from a Stoic, Letter 90