"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" —Seneca
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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." —Aristotle
"Don’t allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears!" —Marcus Aurelius
"Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves." —Xenophon, Conversations Of Socrates
"Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things." —Chrysippus
"To move the world, we must first move ourselves." —Socrates
"What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy." —Marcus Aurelius
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." —Euripides
"If it’s endurable, then endure it, stop complaining." —Marcus Aurelius
"I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith." —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
"The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them." —Cleanthes
"He who conquers his passions is master of his own worlds." —Hierocles
"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems." —Epictetus
"The measure of a man is what he does with power." —Plato
"Be indifferent to what makes no difference." —Marcus Aurelius
"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune." —Marcus Aurelius
"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards." —Diogenes
"Think your way through difficulties: harsh conditions can be softened, restricted ones can be widened, and heavy ones can weigh less on those who know how to bear them." —Seneca
"External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them, which you can erase right now." —Marcus Aurelius