"Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it." —Epictetus
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"Everything hangs on one’s thinking…a man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is." —Seneca
"The fates lead the willing but drag the unwilling." —Cleanthes
"Nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything." —Marcus Aurelius
"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." —Hecato Of Rhodes
"If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it." —Marcus Aurelius
"If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures." —Musonius Rufus
"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus
"Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing." —Seneca
"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny—it is the light that guides your way." —Heraclitus
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputations from storms and tempests." —Epictetus
"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus
"Nothing beautiful without struggle." —Plato, The Republic
"The highest good is not to seek to do good but to allow yourself to become it." —Hierocles
"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter." —Marcus Aurelius
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." —Seneca
"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter." —Marcus Aurelius
"When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men, too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined." —Zeno
"You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself. Don’t expect to encourage good deeds in people conscious of your own misdeeds." —Musonius Rufus
"Nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything." —Marcus Aurelius