"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." —Marcus Aurelius

"Cowards die many times before their death." —Julius Caesar

"Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." —Plato

"Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary?" —Marcus Aurelius

"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

"Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing." —Seneca

"You have to assemble your life yourself, action by action." —Marcus Aurelius

"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another." —Epicurus

"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

"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

"Don’t be overheard complaining…not even to yourself." —Marcus Aurelius

"If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain." —Augustus

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

"Think your way through difficulties: harsh conditions can be softened, restricted ones can be widened, and heavy ones can weigh less on those who know how to bear them." —Seneca

"Cowards die many times before their death." —Julius Caesar

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." —Seneca

"There is truth in wine and children." —Plato, Phaedrus

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

"I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid." —Cato

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