"Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things." —Chrysippus
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"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." —Marcus Aurelius
"Wisdom outweighs any wealth." —Sophocles
"Confine yourself to the present." —Marcus Aurelius
"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." —Socrates
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." —Aristotle
"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." —Seneca
"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary." —Marcus Aurelius
"As fire tests gold, so misfortunate tests brave men." —Seneca
"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older." —Seneca
"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars." —Seneca
"People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work." —Marcus Aurelius
"Recognize that if something is humanly possible, you can do it too." —Marcus Aurelius
"Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things." —Chrysippus
"It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work." —Cato The Elder
"I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid." —Cato
"Man’s character is his fate." —Heraclitus, Fragments
"And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing." —Marcus Aurelius
"If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain." —Augustus
"Above all things, respect yourself." —Pythagoras