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Stoicism and the Seven Deadly Sins. These can be overcome with the seven corresponding virtues of 1) Humility 2) Charity 3) Chastity 4) Gratitude 5) Temperance 6) Patience 7) Diligence Pride: "In society, avoid a frequent and excessive mention of your own actions and dangers. For however agreeable it may be to yourself to allude to the risks you have run, it is not equally agreeable to others to hear your adventures." Epictetus, Enchiridion 33 Greed: “For my part, I would choose sickness rather than luxury, for sickness harms only the body, but luxury destroys both body and soul. Luxury induces weakness in the body, cowardice, and a lack of self-control in the soul. Further, it begets injustice and covetousness in others, and in self the failure in one's duty to friends, city and the gods. ... So, then, as being the cause of injustice, luxury and extravagance must be shunned in every way." Musonius Rufus, Lecture XVIIIb Lust: "Before marriage, guard yourself with all your ability from unlawful intercourse with women" Epictetus, Enchiridion 33 Envy: "Is anyone preferred before you at an entertainment, or in courtesies, or in confidential intercourse? If these things are good, you ought to rejoice that he has them" Epictetus, Enchiridion 32 Gluttony: “The man who eats more than he ought does wrong, and the man who eats in undue haste no less, and also the man who wallows in the pickles and sauces, and the man who prefers the sweeter foods to the more healthful ones, and the man who does not serve food of the same kind or amount to his guests as to himself." Musonius Rufus, On Food Wrath: “Let us put ourselves in place of him with whom we are angry. At present, an overweening conceit of our own importance makes us prone to anger, and we are quite willing to do to others what we cannot endure being done to ourselves." Seneca, On Anger, 3.12 Sloth: “At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: 'I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?'—But it’s nicer here… So you were born to feel ‘nice’? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?" Marcus Aurelius, Meditations V.1