“Past and future have no power over you. Just the present – and even that can be minimized.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.” — Marcus Aurelius

“All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.” — Zeno of Citium

“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.” — Marcus Aurelius

“The first and best victory is to conquer self.” — Plato

“Show them where they go wrong and you will find that they’ll reform. But unless they see it, they are stuck with nothing better than their usual opinion as their practical guide.” ― Epictetus

“It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.” — Marcus Aurelius

Instead of meeting misfortune with groans and tears, I will call upon the faculty especially provided to deal with it.” ― Epictetus

“If a friend tells you that someone has criticized or insulted you, say, “They must not know about my other faults, or they would have pointed out those, too.” ― Epictetus,

“This is what I mean: crimes can be well guarded; free from anxiety they cannot be.” — Seneca

“I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.” — Marcus Aurelius

“I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing.” — Socrates

“Since I can get greatness of soul and nobility from myself, why should I look to get a farm, or money, or some office, from you? I will not be so insensible of what I already own.” ― Epictetus

“Finding wealth an intolerable burden is the mark of an unstable mind.” — Seneca

“Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Poverty brought into conformity with the law of nature, is great wealth.” — Seneca

“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.” — Marcus Aurelius

“To expect an impossibility is madness.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.” — Marcus Aurelius

“See to it that nothing keeps you down.” — Seneca