"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." —Plato
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"All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it." —Marcus Aurelius
"The highest good is not to seek to do good but to allow yourself to become it." —Hierocles
"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
"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods." —Socrates
"As a matter of self-perseveration, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task." —Diogenes
"He has the most who is content with the least." —Diogenes
"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" —Seneca
"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" —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
"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
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself." —Hierocles
"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
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it." —Epicurus
"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." —Marcus Aurelius
"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" —Socrates
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." —Marcus Aurelius
"And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing." —Marcus Aurelius
"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die." —Plato