"I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith." —Seneca
Ancient Wisdom
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"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
"The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them." —Cleanthes
"He who conquers his passions is master of his own worlds." —Hierocles
"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems." —Epictetus
"The measure of a man is what he does with power." —Plato
"Be indifferent to what makes no difference." —Marcus Aurelius
"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune." —Marcus Aurelius
"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards." —Diogenes
"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
"External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them, which you can erase right now." —Marcus Aurelius
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not." —Epicurus
"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." —Marcus Aurelius
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." —Seneca
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today." —Seneca
"Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; Ii melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade since time began." —Sophocles
"So it is with men too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined." —Zeno
"Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." —Plato
"The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think or do. Only what you do." —Marcus Aurelius
"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter." —Marcus Aurelius