"People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work." —Marcus Aurelius
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"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus
"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune." —Marcus Aurelius
"A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence." —Pythagoras
"Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that make him sick." —Hippocrates
"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
"Well begun is half done." —Aristotle
"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable." —Seneca
"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
"Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing." —Seneca
"Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." —Plato
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this, you have the power to revoke at any moment." —Marcus Aurelius
"The fates lead the willing but drag the unwilling." —Cleanthes
"Wait for that wisest of all counselors: time." —Pericles
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." —Marcus Aurelius
"Don’t be overheard complaining…not even to yourself." —Marcus Aurelius
"Don’t allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears!" —Marcus Aurelius
"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you." —Epictetus
"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you." —Epictetus
"Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary?" —Marcus Aurelius