"Courage is knowing what not to fear." —Plato
Ancient Wisdom
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"Nothing exists except atoms and free space, everything else is opinion." —Democritus
"Love is a serious mental disease." —Plato, Phaedrus
"All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it." —Marcus Aurelius
"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly." —Marcus Aurelius
"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action." —Pythagoras
"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" —Seneca
"Nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything." —Marcus Aurelius
"I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith." —Seneca
"The fates lead the willing but drag the unwilling." —Cleanthes
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." —Cicero
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." —Aristotle
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." —Marcus Aurelius
"If you don’t have consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way." —Marcus Aurelius
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." —Aristotle
"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." —Socrates
"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy." —Seneca
"Kindness is unconquerable, so long as it is without flattery or hypocrisy. For what can the most insolent man do to you, if you contrive to be kind to him, and if you have the chance gently advise and calmly show him what is right…and point this out tactfully and from a universal perspective." —Marcus Aurelius
"I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid." —Cato
"Wisdom outweighs any wealth." —Sophocles