My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

– Jane Austin, Persuasion

There are three areas in which the person who would be wise and good must be trained.

Keep this thought a the ready at daybreak, and through the day and night – there is only one path to happiness, and that is in giving up all outside of our sphere of choice , regarding nothing else as your possession, surrendering all else to God and Fortune.

Epictetus, Discourses, 4.4.39