"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
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"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneself to die." —Cicero
"People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right." —Xenophon, Conversations Of Socrates
"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneself to die." —Cicero
"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." —Marcus Aurelius
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." —Sophocles
"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
"Wait for that wisest of all counselors: time." —Pericles
"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" —Socrates
"We must take a higher view of all things, and bear with them more easily: it better becomes a man to scoff at life than to lament over it." —Seneca
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." —Epictetus
"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus
"He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war." —Greek Proverb
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." —Plato
"All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it." —Marcus Aurelius
"The highest good is not to seek to do good but to allow yourself to become it." —Hierocles
"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
"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods." —Socrates
"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
"He has the most who is content with the least." —Diogenes