"You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself. Don’t expect to encourage good deeds in people conscious of your own misdeeds." —Musonius Rufus

"He who conquers his passions is master of his own worlds." —Hierocles

"What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy." —Marcus Aurelius

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." —Epictetus

"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune." —Marcus Aurelius

"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune." —Marcus Aurelius

"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable." —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

"If you don’t have consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way." —Marcus Aurelius

"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable." —Seneca

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." —Marcus Aurelius

"The best livelihood (particularly for the strong) is earning a living from the soil, whether you own your land or not. Many can support their families by farming land owned by the state or private landowners. Some even get rich through hard work with their own hands. The earth repays those who cultivate her, both justly and well, multiplying what she received—endowing in abundance all the necessities of life to anyone willing to work— and all this without violating your dignity or self-respect!" —Musonius Rufus, Musonius Rufus On How To Live

"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today." —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

"If it’s endurable, then endure it, stop complaining." —Marcus Aurelius

"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

"The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams." —Plato, The Republic

"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

"The highest good is not to seek to do good but to allow yourself to become it." —Hierocles

"He has the most who is content with the least." —Diogenes