"Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control." —Epictetus
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"There is truth in wine and children." —Plato, Phaedrus
"As a matter of self-perseveration, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task." —Diogenes
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." —Seneca
"He who has equipped himself for the whole of life does not need to be advised concerning each separate thing, because he is now trained to meet his problem as a whole; for he knows not merely how he should live with his wife or his son, but how he should live aright." —Aristo Of Chios
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." —Seneca
"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus
"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" —Seneca
"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune." —Marcus Aurelius
"What we do now echoes in eternity." —Marcus Aurelius
"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
"Nothing beautiful without struggle." —Plato, The Republic
"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter." —Marcus Aurelius
"The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future." —Epicurus
"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself." —Augustine Of Hippo
"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you." —Epictetus
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today." —Seneca
"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable." —Seneca
"Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves." —Epictetus
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus