"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneself to die." —Cicero
Ancient Wisdom
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"Man conquers the world by conquering himself." —Zeno Of Citium
"Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary?" —Marcus Aurelius
"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
"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune." —Marcus Aurelius
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not." —Epicurus
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." —Seneca
"Don’t be overheard complaining…not even to yourself." —Marcus Aurelius
"The problem creates the solution. What stands in the way becomes the way." —Marcus Aurelius
"What we do now echoes in eternity." —Marcus Aurelius
"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable." —Seneca
"The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged." —Cleanthes
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself." —Plato, The Republic
"The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams." —Plato, The Republic
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will." —Epictetus
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." —Aristotle
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." —Plutarch
"The fates lead the willing but drag the unwilling." —Cleanthes
"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." —Socrates
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." —Marcus Aurelius