"Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary?" —Marcus Aurelius
Ancient Wisdom
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"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." —Marcus Aurelius
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." —Aristotle
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." —Epictetus
"Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent." —Dionysius
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." —Euripides
"We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say." —Zeno, Quoted By Diogenes Laërtius
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself." —Hierocles
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." —Seneca
"Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away." —Anaxagoras
"He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war." —Greek Proverb
"He who has equipped himself for the whole of life does not need to be advised concerning each separate thing, because he is now trained to meet his problem as a whole; for he knows not merely how he should live with his wife or his son, but how he should live aright." —Aristo Of Chios
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." —Marcus Aurelius
"Don’t allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears!" —Marcus Aurelius
"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars." —Seneca
"He who hesitates is lost." —Cato
"So it is with men too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined." —Zeno
"The problem creates the solution. What stands in the way becomes the way." —Marcus Aurelius
"Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that make him sick." —Hippocrates
"Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it." —Epictetus