"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man." —Heraclitus
Ancient Wisdom
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"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 you don’t have consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way." —Marcus Aurelius
"The measure of a man is what he does with power." —Plato
"Courage is knowing what not to fear." —Plato
"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus
"The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature." —Zeno
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." —Aristotle
"Rule your mind or it will rule you." —Horace
"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter." —Marcus Aurelius
"The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future." —Epicurus
"Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary?" —Marcus Aurelius
"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods." —Socrates
"Think your way through difficulties: harsh conditions can be softened, restricted ones can be widened, and heavy ones can weigh less on those who know how to bear them." —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
"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains… nowhere can a man find a retreat more peaceful or more free from trouble than his own soul." —Marcus Aurelius
"Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit." —Cato
"If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain." —Augustus
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another." —Epicurus
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it." —Epicurus