"He has the most who is content with the least." —Diogenes
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"Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent." —Dionysius
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." —Epictetus
"The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them." —Cleanthes
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus
"He has the most who is content with the least." —Diogenes
"What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy." —Marcus Aurelius
"Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves." —Epictetus
"Wealth is able to buy the pleasures of eating, drinking and other sensual pursuits—yet can never afford a cheerful spirit or freedom from sorrow." —Musonius Rufus, Musonius Rufus On How To Live
"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
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." —Seneca
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself." —Plato, The Republic
"A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant." —Posidonius
"I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith." —Seneca
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." —Plato
"All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it." —Marcus Aurelius
"There is truth in wine and children." —Plato, Phaedrus
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." —Seneca
"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow." —Cicero
"Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things." —Chrysippus