"It is greed to do all the talking but to not want to listen at all." —Democritus
Ancient Wisdom
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"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
"Above all things, respect yourself." —Pythagoras
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself." —Hierocles
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." —Aristotle
"Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit." —Cato
"Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary?" —Marcus Aurelius
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will." —Epictetus
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." —Plato
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." —Aristotle
"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." —Seneca
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." —Marcus Aurelius
"Wisdom outweighs any wealth." —Sophocles
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." —Plato
"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?" —Marcus Aurelius
"Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back." —Marcus Aurelius
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing." —Socrates
"What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy." —Marcus Aurelius
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." —Marcus Aurelius
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." —Plato