"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." —Seneca
Ancient Wisdom
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"Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that make him sick." —Hippocrates
"A humble art affords us daily bread." —Nero
"Better to do a little well than a great deal badly." —Socrates
"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue." —Plato
"If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain." —Augustus
"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." —Epictetus
"A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence." —Pythagoras
"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneself to die." —Cicero
"We must take a higher view of all things, and bear with them more easily: it better becomes a man to scoff at life than to lament over it." —Seneca
"When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men, too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined." —Zeno
"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?" —Marcus Aurelius
"As fire tests gold, so misfortunate tests brave men." —Seneca
"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you." —Epictetus
"Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that make him sick." —Hippocrates
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." —Marcus Aurelius
"As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is." —Seneca
"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy." —Seneca
"If you don’t have consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way." —Marcus Aurelius
"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden." —Seneca