"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." —Sophocles
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"Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves." —Epictetus
"Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things." —Chrysippus
"Man conquers the world by conquering himself." —Zeno Of Citium
"If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain." —Augustus
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." —Plato
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today." —Seneca
"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" —Socrates
"When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men, too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined." —Zeno
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." —Seneca
"Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back." —Marcus Aurelius
"Rule your mind or it will rule you." —Horace
"Death is not the worst that can happen to men." —Plato
"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." —Marcus Aurelius
"There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood." —Chrysippus
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." —Aristotle
"People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right." —Xenophon, Conversations Of Socrates
"He who conquers his passions is master of his own worlds." —Hierocles
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." —Cicero
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." —Aristotle