“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”

“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”

“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”

'The greatest remedy for anger is delay.'

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”

“To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.”

STOICISM

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

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“Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)”

“We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?”

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

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

STOICISM

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

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“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

'No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth.'

STOICISM

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

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“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”

STOICISM

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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'It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.'

“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”

“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”