"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary." —Marcus Aurelius

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." —Seneca

"Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent." —Dionysius

"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue." —Plato

"You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods’ gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise." —Xenophon, The Persian Expedition

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself." —Zeno Of Citium

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." —Marcus Aurelius

"Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." —Plato

"There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood." —Chrysippus

"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature." —Plato, The Symposium

"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company." —Seneca

"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

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age." —Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A humble art affords us daily bread." —Nero

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself." —Zeno Of Citium

"Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary?" —Marcus Aurelius

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." —Marcus Aurelius

"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable." —Seneca

"Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth." —Ptolemy

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." —Marcus Aurelius