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You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

  • Marcus Aurelius

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train noble natures not to desire more, and mean ones to fear less.

  • Aristotle

"For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."

  • Plato

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  • Marcus Aurelius

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

  • Marcus Aurelius

Joy in the Thing people say; but in reality it is joy in itself by means of the thing."

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nobody is responsible for his actions, nobody for his nature; to judge is identical with being unjust.”

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

“No one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all the other goods.”

  • Aristotle

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

  • Marcus Aurelius

Hope is a waking dream.

  • Aristotle

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

  • Marcus Aurelius

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

  • Aristotle

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

  • Aristotle

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

  • Marcus Aurelius

“There are those amongst them who never let a day pass without hanging a little hymn of praise on its trailing fringe.”

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

  • Aristotle

Passion will not wait; the tragedy in the lives of great men frequently lies not in their conflict with the times and the baseness of their fellow-men, but in their incapacity of postponing their work for a year or two; they cannot wait.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

"And where temperance is, their health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body."

  • Plato

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

"Prayed for inner beauty and harmony of soul and body over material wealth."

  • Plato
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