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[{"quote":"Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one who is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"One is better able to bear what is expected.","author":"Pierre Hadot"},{"quote":"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"For no man is a slave who is free in his will.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.","author":"Daniel Kahneman"},{"quote":"It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.","author":"Steve Jobs"},{"quote":"Practice even what seems impossible.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.","author":"Montaigne"},{"quote":"We must despise wealth: it is the indenture of slavery.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.","author":"William Penn"},{"quote":"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him.","author":"John Boyd"},{"quote":"Do not let past evils disturb you, for what is done cannot be undone.","author":"Phocylides"},{"quote":"All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and goodness.","author":"Montaigne"},{"quote":"And yet life, Lucilius, is really a battle.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"No man is free who is not master of himself.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"You are scared of dying—and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different than being dead?","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Pay careful attention to what people say. Try your best to understand where they are coming from.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Whatever mishap can befall any man can also happen to you.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.","author":"William Congreve"},{"quote":"You don’t have to have an opinion about anything. Nothing needs to upset you. Things have no power to force you to have an opinion about them.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"This is our big mistake: to think we look forward to death. Most of death is already gone. Whatever time has passed is owned by death.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"It is possible to be wise without display and without provoking ill-will.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"When I think of all I have said, I envy the mute.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Apply reason to difficulties: what is hard can be softened.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"The greatest fault in life is that it is always unfinished, that something is being postponed.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.","author":"Epicurus"},{"quote":"You are scared of dying–and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different than being dead?","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Nothing satisfies greed but even a little satisfies nature.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Everything's destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.","author":"Jack London"},{"quote":"Whatever you do, keep death in mind.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Indifference to external events. And a commitment to justice in your own acts.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"There is only one thing that is precious in this life: to live one’s life truthfully and fairly and be charitable even with those who are untruthful and unfair.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Believe me it is better to understand the balance-sheet of one's own life than of the corn trade.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"He who indulges empty fears earns himself real fears.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in your thoughts.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"We must also make ourselves flexible, to avoid becoming too devoted to the plans we have formed.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Learn to ask of all actions, 'Why are they doing that?' Starting with your own.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.","author":"Viktor Frankl"},{"quote":"It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day… The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"The things you run from are inside you.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"To do harm is to do yourself harm.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Salvation: to see each thing for what it is—its nature and its purpose.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"only the present matters. Things that lie in the past or the future are indifferent.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.","author":"Carl Jung"},{"quote":"The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"A great fortune is a great slavery.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Let us not postpone anything, let us engage in combats with life each day.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Shallow men believe in luck...Strong men believe in cause and effect.","author":"Emerson"},{"quote":"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating...How often has the expected never come to pass!","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Let all your effort be directed towards a particular aim and keep a particular aim in sight.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"True good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, good actions.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The responsibility is all yours; no one can stop you from being honest or straightforward.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"You have to assemble your life yourself—action by action.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Someone despises me. That's their problem.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Don’t make a fuss or return anger for anger. Complete your task methodically.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.","author":"Nassim Taleb"},{"quote":"The cruelty of Fortune bears harder on the inexperienced.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"In death, Alexander the Great was no different from a stable boy. Both were absorbed by the universe the same way and dissolved into atoms.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Objectivity is a virtue, and one that is very difficult to practice.","author":"Pierre Hadot"},{"quote":"To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces.","author":"Robert Greene"},{"quote":"Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Truth doesn’t harm anyone. Persistent self-delusion and ignorance do.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"If you can show me and prove to me that I am wrong in my thinking or in my actions, I will gladly change. ","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The past is dead and men cannot continue to live as ghosts. It is only in the future that we can live.","author":"Saul Alinsky"},{"quote":"Revenge is an admission of pain: a mind that is bowed by injury is not a great mind.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Misfortune is virtue's opportunity.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Does anyone weep over an event which he kept saying was bound to happen?","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"So make haste to live, my dear Lucilius and think of each single day as a single life.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"'It's unfortunate that this has happened.' No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"It's all in how you perceive it. You're in control. You can dispense with misperception at will, like rounding the point.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.","author":"Shelby Foote"},{"quote":"He is unreasonable who is grieved (troubled) at the things which happen from the necessity of nature.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"He will have a moderate attitude to riches and power and every sort of good and bad fortune, however it turns out.","author":"Aristotle"},{"quote":"To bear misfortunes with a tranquil mind robs hardship of its strength and weight.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.","author":"Jack London"},{"quote":"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Let all your care be directed to the mind.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. ","author":"Murakami"},{"quote":"For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"The beginnings of all things are small.","author":"Cicero"},{"quote":"Concentrate on what you're doing, and what you're doing it with. ","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Don’t strive to be thought of as wise. Even if you succeed in impressing others as a wise person, don’t believe it yourself.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"To see the causes of things stripped bare. The aim of actions.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"It is folly to say, ‘What I have said must remain fixed.’ There is no disgrace in having our opinions change with the circumstances.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is most difficult of all things.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Only time can heal what reason cannot.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.","author":"Wendell Phillips"},{"quote":"You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself. ","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"How many who were famous are forgotten! How many who celebrated the famous are long gone!","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Don’t be ashamed to ask for help. You should do your duty like a soldier. How could you do it if you are hurt and unable to climb out of a hole yourself, except with the help of a comrade?","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The happy man is one who is freed from both fear and desire because of the gift of reason. ","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Some things are in our control, while others are not.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive. ","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.","author":"Viktor Frankl"},{"quote":"Nothing can satisfy greed, but even a small measure satisfies nature.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? What is outside my mind means nothing to it.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.","author":"Musonius Rufus"},{"quote":"Nature takes revenge on everybody.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"For a rational person, what is according to nature is according to reason.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"But all examples of excess become a fault.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"I shall never be ashamed to go to a bad author for a good quotation. ","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"In public avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs. ","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"All things are changing: and you yourself are in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction, and the whole universe, too.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"What then can pollute and clog the mind's proper functioning? Nothing but its own corrupt decisions.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"It is quality rather than quantity that matters.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"...but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"From Rusticus...I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Above all, it is necessary for a person to have a true self-estimate, for we commonly think we can do more than we really can.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"If something happens, the parts of me that are affected may complain, if they like. But, if I don’t interpret it as bad or evil, I am not harmed. No one compels me to do so.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"If anyone can refute me‚show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective‚I'll gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. ","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"An action will not be upright unless the intention behind it is upright, for the action depends on it.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"How much better to heal than seek revenge from injury. Vengeance wastes a lot of time and exposes you to many more injuries than the first that sparked it. Anger always outlasts hurt. Best to take the opposite course.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Let the body do whatever it can to avoid hurt. If it is hurt, let it complain. But, the soul – the part that feels and judges fear and pain – suffers nothing.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Don't depend on the enemy not coming; depend rather on being ready for him.","author":"Sun-tzu"},{"quote":"To study a text, or microbes, or the stars, one must rid oneself of one's subjectivity. ","author":"Pierre Hadot"},{"quote":"We learn not for school, but for life.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Receive without pride, let go without attachment.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Ignorance is the cause of fear.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Confine yourself to the present.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"You are afraid of dying. But, come now, how is this life of yours anything but death?","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions not outside.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Nothing, however, delights the mind as much as loving and loyal friendship. ","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"The highest good in life is the pursuit of the four cardinal virtues of practical wisdom, temperance, justice & courage.","author":"Massimo Pigliucci"},{"quote":"True good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, good actions. ","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"For no man is free who is a slave to his body.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Harsh conditions can be softened, restricted ones can be widened, and heavy ones can weigh less on those who know how to bear them.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied, for he that is wants nothing.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"The present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"When another person blames you or hates you, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realise that there is no reason to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Excess in anything becomes a fault.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been. ","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"It is folly to say, 'What I have said must remain fixed.' There is no disgrace in having our opinions change with the circumstances","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Analyze everything to understand what is cause and what is material. Meditate upon your last hour. Let other people’s mistakes rest with them.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"You are not your body and hair-style, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.","author":"Montaigne"},{"quote":"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"I am satisfied if each day I make some reduction in the number of my vices and find fault with my mistakes.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Let each thing you would do, say or intend be like that of a dying person.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"We must be indulgent to the mind, and from time to time grant it the leisure that serves as its food and strength.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"If it isn’t the right thing to do, then don’t do it; but if it is, why be afraid of those who will criticize you wrongly?","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"You are not flesh or hair but what you choose. If you make that beautiful, then you will be beautiful.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don't.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"How does it help...to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"But there is no reason to live and no limit to our miseries if we let our fears predominate.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"If you don't wish to be a hothead, don't feed your habit","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Salvation: to see each thing for what it is‚its nature and its purpose.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Many people take pains to hide their feelings and never show themselves as they are. They live an artificial life to impress others.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Nobody learns what he can do except by trying.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.","author":"Cato The Elder"},{"quote":"Excellence withers without an adversary.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"That before long you'll be no one, and nowhere. Like all the things you see now. All the people now living. Everything's destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The greatest remedy for anger is delay.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"It is not that we are given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Be true to who you are: caring, sympathetic, kind.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Many are hurt by fear itself, may have come upon their fate through fear of fate. ","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Don’t let the force of an impressions when it first hit you knock you off your feet; just say to it: Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test. ","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"It is is a wise person who does not grieve for the things they have not, but rejoices for the things they have.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Let no one rob me of a single day who is not going to make me an adequate return for such a loss.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"I will do nothing because of public opinion, but everything because of conscience.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you'd crave them if you didn't have them.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Remind yourself that your precious one isn't one of your possessions, but something given for now, not forever.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Consider who you are. Above all, a human being, carrying no greater power than your own reasoned choice, which oversees all other things, and is free from any other master.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Whatever I may possess, I will neither hoard it greedily nor squander it recklessly.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.","author":"Benjamin Franklin"},{"quote":"We suffer more in imagination than in reality.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our own doing.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"We must undergo a hard winter training and not rush into things for which we haven't prepared.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Not to be driven this way and that, but always to behave with justice and see things as they are.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible‚ by doing so, you'll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Ask yourself at every moment, Is this necessary?","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Water can be both good and bad, useful and dangerous. To the danger, however, a remedy has been found: learning to swim.","author":"Democritus"},{"quote":"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"The rational soul is stronger than any kind of fortune‚ from its own share it guides its affairs here or there, and is itself the cause of a happy or miserable life.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"One who is everywhere is nowhere.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"You can bind up my leg, but not even Zeus has the power to break my freedom of choice.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Take charge and stake your own claim‚something posterity will carry in its notebook.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Life is long enough, and it's given in sufficient measure to do many great things if we spend it well.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"What is misfortune? An opinion. What is subversion, dissension, complaint, blame, accusation, or foolish talk? All mere opinions.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"The person who does wrong, does wrong to themselves. The unjust person is unjust to themselves‚making themselves evil.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Other people's mistakes? Leave them to their makers.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Because most of what we say and do is not essential. Ask yourself at every moment, \"Is this necessary?\"","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"If you transfer your opinions to what is within your choice, I guarantee you peace of mind, no matter what is happening around you.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"You look at the pimples of others when you yourselves are covered with a mass of sores.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives‚ worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Do battle with yourself: if you have the will to conquer anger, it cannot conquer you.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Take some of your own time for yourself too.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"You get what you deserve. Instead of being a good person today, you choose instead to become one tomorrow.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Your duty is made of several parts. Pay attention to each one, but don’t make a fuss or return anger for anger. Complete your task methodically.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Above all, keep a close watch on this‚ that you are never so tied to your former acquaintances and friends that you are pulled down to their level. If you don't, you'll be ruined. . . . ","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.","author":"Viktor Frankl"},{"quote":"Nothing is more important than this: we should not, like sheep, follow the group that has gone before us. We should go to the right place, not where others are going.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Just as you are satisfied with your normal weight, so you should be with the time you've been given.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The ideal for a Stoic isn’t to be unemotional, it’s to replace unhealthy emotions with healthy ones.","author":"@DonJRobertson"},{"quote":"Everything turns on your assumptions about it, and that's on you. You can pluck out the hasty judgment at will, and like steering a ship around the point, you will find calm seas, fair weather and a safe port.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will - then your life will flow well.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment.Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.","author":"Nietzsche"},{"quote":"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.","author":"Cato The Elder"},{"quote":"Who's my 'master? Whoever controls what you desire or dislike.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"He who is everywhere is nowhere.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"That which isn't good for the hive,isn't good for the bee.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The willing, Destiny guides them.The unwilling, Destiny drags them.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Who is your master? Anyone who has control over things upon which you've set your heart, or over things which you seek to avoid.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able be good.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"He was sent to prison. But the observation 'he has suffered evil,' is an addition coming from you.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"You have power over your mind not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Why all this guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road, follow it. Cheerfully, without turning back. If not, hold up and get the best advice you can.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"As one man rejoices in improving his farm and another his horse, so I rejoice day-by-day in following my own improvement.","author":"Socrates"},{"quote":"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.","author":"John Ruskin"},{"quote":"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.","author":"Viktor Frankl"},{"quote":"Deliberate much before saying or doing anything, for you will not have the power of recalling what has been said or done. ","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Zeno would also say that nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception.","author":"Diogenes Laertius"},{"quote":"Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Keep yourself simple, good, pure, reverent, unassuming, and devoted to your duty.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Just as all vices become deep-rooted unless they are crushed when they spring up, so, too, such a state of sadness and wretchedness, with its self-afflicted torture, feeds at last upon its very bitterness, and the grief of an unhappy mind becomes a morbid pleasure.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"So let us not worry about what most people do, but what is best for us to do, what will lead us to realize lasting happiness.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"The blow of an evil foreseen comes softly.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Learn to ask of all actions, \"Why are they doing that?\" Starting with your own.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Is it possible to be free from error? Not by any means, but it is possible to be a person always stretching to avoid error. For we must be content to at least escape a few mistakes by never letting our attention slide.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Men, the philosopher's lecture-hall is a hospital‚you shouldn't walk out of it feeling pleasure, but pain, for you aren't well when you enter it.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"If there is no struggle, there is no progress.","author":"Frederick Douglass"},{"quote":"There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.","author":"Aristotle"},{"quote":"You cry, I'm suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way?","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Don’t let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"The person who has practiced philosophy as a cure for the self becomes great of soul, filled with confidence, invincible‚and greater as you draw near.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"I may wish to be free from torture, but if the time comes for me to endure it, I'll wish to bear it courageously and with honor.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Let us get used to dining out without the crowds, to being a slave to fewer slaves, to getting clothes only for their real purpose, and to living in more modest quarters.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"I say, let no one rob me of a single day who isn't going to make a full return on the loss.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Keep this thought at the ready at daybreak, and through the day and night‚ there is only one path to happiness, and that is in giving up all outside of your sphere of choice, regarding nothing else as your possession...","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won't tire and give up, if you aren't busying yourself with lesser things beyond what should be allowed.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The only rewards of our existence here are an unstained character and unselfish acts.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"All cruelty springs from weakness.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Remember this‚ that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Just as we train ourselves to answer obscure, nit-picking questions, so should we train to deal with everyday impressions because they implicitly question us.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.","author":"Ray Bradbury"},{"quote":"Let us press on and persevere.There remains much more of the road than we have put behind us; but the greater part of progress is the desire to progress.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"How many have laid waste to your life when you weren't aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire, and social amusements‚ how little of your own was left to you. ","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"There is no evil in things changing, just as there is no good in persisting in a new state.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"We can choose to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be troubled by it; for things themselves have no power of their own to affect our judgments.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.","author":"Cato"},{"quote":"It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"There's nothing worse than a wolf befriending sheep. Avoid false friendship at all costs. If you are good, straightforward, and well meaning it should show in your eyes and not escape notice.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.","author":"Socrates"},{"quote":"The mind must be given relaxation‚ it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced‚ for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a break‚ so constant work on the anvil will fracture the force of the mind.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"We have other men’s vices before our eyes, and our own behind our backs.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?”","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"At every moment keep a sturdy mind on the task at hand, as a Roman and human being, doing it with strict and simple dignity, affection, freedom, and justice‚ giving yourself a break from all other considerations.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Sickness comes, captivity, disaster, conflagration, but none of them is unexpected‚ I always knew in what disorderly company Nature had confined me.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue...","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Fortune falls heavily on those for whom she's unexpected. The one always on the lookout easily endures.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":". . . freedom isn't secured by filling up on your heart's desire but by removing your desire.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"No overactivity.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Curb your desire‚ don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first instalment of it.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"If you must be affected by other people’s misfortunes,show them pity instead of contempt.Drop this readiness to hate.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"We don't control our body, property, reputation, position, and, in a word, everything not of our own doing.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Remember that all is opinion.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"For the person who lives a virtuous life, of steadfastness and good judgment, happiness is always within reach.","author":"Massimo Pigliucci"},{"quote":"All happiness depends on courage and work.","author":"Honoré de Balzac"},{"quote":"They lose the day in waiting for the night.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"I begin to speak only when I'm certain what I'll say isn't better left unsaid.","author":"Cato"},{"quote":"Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present‚ thoughtfully, justly.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"What is to give light must endure burning.","author":"Viktor Frankl"},{"quote":"If you want to determine the nature of anything, entrust it to time: when the sea is stormy, you can see nothing clearly.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Happy is a person who uses reason, and he neither hopes nor fears.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live it in a consistent way.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Riches have shut off many a man from the attainment of wisdom.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Promise yourself that you will assume YOU are the root of your problems next time you get upset.","author":"@IAmMarkManson"},{"quote":"The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"However he may treat me, I must deal rightly by him. This is what lies with me, what none can hinder.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Wealth is able to buy the pleasures of eating, drinking and other sensual pursuits —yet can never afford a cheerful spirit or freedom from sorrow.","author":"Musonius Rufus"},{"quote":"Therefore, my dear Lucilius, begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"We say that nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"quote":"To study a text, or microbes, or the stars, one must rid oneself of one's subjectivity.","author":"Pierre Hadot"},{"quote":"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.","author":"Wendell Phillips"},{"quote":"Whenever externals are more important to you than your own integrity, then be prepared to serve them the remainder of your life.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"I shall never be ashamed to go to a bad author for a good quotation.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.","author":"George Bernard Shaw"},{"quote":"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli"},{"quote":"And to make it our aim to seek riches, not from Fortune, but from ourselves.","author":"Seneca"}]