"The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future." —Epicurus
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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." —Epictetus
"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." —Epictetus
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." —Plato
"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" —Socrates
"And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing." —Marcus Aurelius
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputations from storms and tempests." —Epictetus
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." —Sophocles
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." —Seneca
"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
"You have to assemble your life yourself, action by action." —Marcus Aurelius
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." —Cicero
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child." —Cicero
"A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant." —Posidonius
"The problem creates the solution. What stands in the way becomes the way." —Marcus Aurelius
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." —Seneca
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?" —Marcus Aurelius
"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older." —Seneca
"The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future." —Epicurus