"He has the most who is content with the least." —Diogenes

"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" —Seneca

"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" —Seneca

"If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures." —Musonius Rufus

"If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures." —Musonius Rufus

"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself." —Hierocles

"You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself. Don’t expect to encourage good deeds in people conscious of your own misdeeds." —Musonius Rufus

"Nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything." —Marcus Aurelius

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it." —Epicurus

"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." —Marcus Aurelius

"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" —Socrates

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." —Marcus Aurelius

"And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing." —Marcus Aurelius

"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

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." —Descartes

"The highest good is not to seek to do good but to allow yourself to become it." —Hierocles

"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." —Seneca

"Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes particularly fierce or calm, what provokes its typical cries, and what tones of voice make it gentle or wild. Once he’s spent enough time in the creature’s company to acquire all this information, he calls it knowledge, forms it into a systematic branch of expertise, and starts to teach it, despite total ignorance, in fact, about which of the creature’s attitudes and desires is commendable or deplorable, good, or bad, moral or immoral. His usage of all these terms simply conforms to the great beast’s attitudes, and he describes things as good or bad according to its likes and dislikes, and can’t justify his usage of the terms any further, but describes as right and good the things which are merely indispensable, since he hasn’t realized and can’t explain to anyone else how vast a gulf there is between necessity and goodness." —Plato, The Republic

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not." —Epicurus

"I will reveal to you a love potion, without medicine, without herbs, without any witch’s magic; if you want to be loved, then love." —Hecato Of Rhodes