"Before a crowd, the ignorant are more persuasive than the educated." —Aristotle

"Virtue is the health of the soul." —Aristo Of Chio

"The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think or do. Only what you do." —Marcus Aurelius

"Each man’s soul is his genius." —Xenocrates

"In marriage, there must be complete companionship and concern for each other on the part of both husband and wife, in health and in sickness and at all times, because they entered upon the marriage for this reason as well as to produce offspring. When such caring for one another is perfect, and the married couple provides it for one another, and each strives to outdo the other, then this is marriage as it ought to be and deserving of emulation, since it is a noble union. But when one partner looks to his own interests alone and neglects the other’s, or (by Zeus) the other is so minded that he lives in the same house, but keeps his mind on what is outside it, and does not wish to pull together with his partner or to cooperate, then inevitably the union is destroyed, and although they live together their common interests fare badly, and either they finally get divorced from one another or they continue on in an existence that is worse than loneliness." —Rufus

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth." —Sophocles

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." —Plato

"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today." —Seneca

"The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future." —Epicurus

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." —Epictetus

"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." —Epictetus

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." —Plato

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

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

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputations from storms and tempests." —Epictetus

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." —Sophocles

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." —Seneca

"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

"You have to assemble your life yourself, action by action." —Marcus Aurelius