"He has the most who is content with the least." —Diogenes

"Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it." —Epictetus

"The first step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all." —Marcus Aurelius

"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." —Seneca

"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?" —Marcus Aurelius

"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. No man is free who cannot control himself." —Pythagoras

"If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation." —Epictetus

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly." —Marcus Aurelius

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war." —Seneca

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." —Marcus Aurelius

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality." —Seneca

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." —Marcus Aurelius

"He who hesitates is lost." —Cato

"The only thing I know is that I know nothing." —Socrates

"If it’s endurable, then endure it, stop complaining." —Marcus Aurelius

"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do." —Cicero

"Order your soul. Reduce your wants." —Augustine Of Hippo

"He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive." —Seneca

"To be even-minded is the greatest virtue." —Heraclitus

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." —Epictetus