"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company." —Seneca

"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." —Epicurus

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." —Plato

"In marriage, there must be complete companionship and concern for each other on the part of both husband and wife, in health and in sickness and at all times, because they entered upon the marriage for this reason as well as to produce offspring. When such caring for one another is perfect, and the married couple provides it for one another, and each strives to outdo the other, then this is marriage as it ought to be and deserving of emulation, since it is a noble union. But when one partner looks to his own interests alone and neglects the other’s, or (by Zeus) the other is so minded that he lives in the same house, but keeps his mind on what is outside it, and does not wish to pull together with his partner or to cooperate, then inevitably the union is destroyed, and although they live together their common interests fare badly, and either they finally get divorced from one another or they continue on in an existence that is worse than loneliness." —Rufus

"He needs little who desires but little." —Cleanthes

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." —Plato

"Wealth is able to buy the pleasures of eating, drinking and other sensual pursuits—yet can never afford a cheerful spirit or freedom from sorrow." —Musonius Rufus, Musonius Rufus On How To Live

"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneself to die." —Cicero

"People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right." —Xenophon, Conversations Of Socrates

"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneself to die." —Cicero

"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." —Marcus Aurelius

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." —Sophocles

"I will reveal to you a love potion, without medicine, without herbs, without any witch’s magic; if you want to be loved, then love." —Hecato Of Rhodes

"Wait for that wisest of all counselors: time." —Pericles

"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" —Socrates

"We must take a higher view of all things, and bear with them more easily: it better becomes a man to scoff at life than to lament over it." —Seneca

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." —Epictetus

"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus

"He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war." —Greek Proverb

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." —Plato