"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." —Marcus Aurelius
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"Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing." —Seneca
"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly." —Marcus Aurelius
"There is truth in wine and children." —Plato, Phaedrus
"The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them." —Cleanthes
"All cruelty springs from weakness." —Seneca
"If it’s endurable, then endure it, stop complaining." —Marcus Aurelius
"No man is hurt by himself." —Diogenes
"The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged." —Cleanthes
"He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive." —Seneca
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." —Plutarch
"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" —Socrates
"Nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything." —Marcus Aurelius
"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains… nowhere can a man find a retreat more peaceful or more free from trouble than his own soul." —Marcus Aurelius
"Man’s character is his fate." —Heraclitus, Fragments
"Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing." —Seneca
"Devote the rest of your life to making progress." —Epictetus
"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." —Descartes
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputations from storms and tempests." —Epictetus
"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneself to die." —Cicero