"Above all things, respect yourself." —Pythagoras
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"Everything hangs on one’s thinking…a man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is." —Seneca
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it." —Epicurus
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." —Cicero
"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." —Seneca
"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
"A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence." —Pythagoras
"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow." —Cicero
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." —Epictetus
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." —Marcus Aurelius
"All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it." —Marcus Aurelius
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." —Seneca
"Nature does nothing uselessly." —Aristotle
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." —Epictetus
"Man conquers the world by conquering himself." —Zeno Of Citium
"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny—it is the light that guides your way." —Heraclitus
"Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves." —Epictetus
"A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant." —Posidonius
"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
"If you don’t have consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way." —Marcus Aurelius