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"I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live."

  • Plato

“The promise to love someone forever is, therefore, really: So long as I love you I will act towards you.”

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

  • Marcus Aurelius

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

  • Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  • 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

One does not attack a person merely to hurt and conquer him, but perhaps merely to become conscious of one's own strength.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

  • Aristotle

"Until philosophers are kings... and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, cities will never have rest from their evils."

  • Plato

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

Perfection of character: to live your life as if it were your last moment, with no hot haste, no apathy, no pretense.

  • Marcus Aurelius

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.”

  • Aristotle

"For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms... he may escape death."

  • Plato

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

  • Marcus Aurelius

If death is like undisturbed sleep, I say that to die is gain.

  • Plato

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

  • Plato

"All men do all things, and the better they are the more they do them, in hope of the glorious fame of immortal virtue; for they desire the immortal."

  • Plato

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of presumptions.”

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

"The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the like; and by these the wing of the soul is nourished and grows apace."

  • Plato

“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion.”

  • Aristotle
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