"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow." —Cicero
Ancient Wisdom
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"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." —Epictetus
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." —Marcus Aurelius
"All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it." —Marcus Aurelius
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." —Seneca
"Nature does nothing uselessly." —Aristotle
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." —Epictetus
"Man conquers the world by conquering himself." —Zeno Of Citium
"Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves." —Epictetus
"A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant." —Posidonius
"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
"If you don’t have consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way." —Marcus Aurelius
"Be indifferent to what makes no difference." —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
"There is truth in wine and children." —Plato, Phaedrus
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." —Seneca
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." —Epictetus
"If I followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy." —Chrysippus
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." —Epicurus
"Wealth is able to buy the pleasures of eating, drinking and other sensual pursuits—yet can never afford a cheerful spirit or freedom from sorrow." —Musonius Rufus, Musonius Rufus On How To Live