"Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves." —Xenophon, Conversations Of Socrates
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"Nature does nothing uselessly." —Aristotle
"Recognize that if something is humanly possible, you can do it too." —Marcus Aurelius
"All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it." —Marcus Aurelius
"Better to do a little well than a great deal badly." —Socrates
"It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work." —Cato The Elder
"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
"What we do now echoes in eternity." —Marcus Aurelius
"Man’s character is his fate." —Heraclitus, Fragments
"Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master." —Epictetus
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." —Plutarch
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little." —Plato
"Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away." —Anaxagoras
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity." —Hippocrates
"Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master." —Epictetus
"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." —Descartes
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." —Seneca
"Kindness is unconquerable, so long as it is without flattery or hypocrisy. For what can the most insolent man do to you, if you contrive to be kind to him, and if you have the chance gently advise and calmly show him what is right…and point this out tactfully and from a universal perspective." —Marcus Aurelius
"Confine yourself to the present." —Marcus Aurelius
"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