"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden." —Seneca
Ancient Wisdom
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"The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think or do. Only what you do." —Marcus Aurelius
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength." —Marcus Aurelius
"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." —Seneca
"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" —Seneca
"Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary?" —Marcus Aurelius
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this, you have the power to revoke at any moment." —Marcus Aurelius
"Courage is knowing what not to fear." —Plato
"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature." —Plato, The Symposium
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." —Aristotle
"Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control." —Epictetus
"There is truth in wine and children." —Plato, Phaedrus
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." —Epicurus
"He who conquers his passions is master of his own worlds." —Hierocles
"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older." —Seneca
"As a matter of self-perseveration, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task." —Diogenes
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." —Seneca
"He who has equipped himself for the whole of life does not need to be advised concerning each separate thing, because he is now trained to meet his problem as a whole; for he knows not merely how he should live with his wife or his son, but how he should live aright." —Aristo Of Chios
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." —Seneca
"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus