All quotes.

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

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

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

"Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it."

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

"A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others."

"A man’s true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else."

"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."

"A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values."

"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master."

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you."

"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."

"Confine yourself to the present."

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

"Do not try to seem wise to others."

"Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well."

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better."

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?"

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress."

"Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire."

"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life."

"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older."

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

"He is most powerful who has power over himself."

"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive."

"He who is brave is free."

"He who is brave is free."

"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

"He who spares the wicked injures the good."

"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not 'This is misfortune,' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"

"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."

"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."

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

"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it."

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who cont…"

"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present."

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."

"If you wish to be a writer, write."

"If you wish to be loved, love."

"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write."

"Ignorance is the cause of fear."

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

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"It is not that I am brave, but that I know what is not worth fearing."

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"It is the mind that makes us rich."

"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."

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

"It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices."

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

"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."

"Let each thing you would do, say, or intend, be like that of a dying person."

"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

"Life is long, if you know how to use it."

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."

"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

"Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."

"No great thing is created suddenly."

"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity."

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have."

"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

"Nothing is smaller than love of pleasure, and love of gain and pride. Nothing is greater than magnanimity, and gentleness and love of mankind."

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

"Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need."

"Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing."

"Only the educated are free."

"Only time can heal what reason cannot."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Pass through this brief patch of time in harmony with nature, and come to your final resting place gracefully, just as a ripened olive might drop, praising the earth that nouris…"

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them."

"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense."

"Receive without conceit, release without struggle."

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

"Retire into yourself as much as you can; associate with those who will improve you."

"Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourself."

"Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"Take care not to be harmed by your own thoughts."

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."

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

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

"The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time."

"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."

"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."

"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."

"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars."

"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with."

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

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

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly."

"Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack."

"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place."

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is diabolical."

"To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it."

"To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference."

"To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony."

"To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it."

"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

"Understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."

"We learn not in the school, but in life."

"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are."

"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."

"What we do now echoes in eternity."

"Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color."

"Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time."

"When you are offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to yourself and reflect in what like manner you do err yourself."

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love..."

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

"While we wait for life, life passes."

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire."

"You always own the option of having no opinion."

"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."

"You become what you give your attention to."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"You want to live—but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying—and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?"