{ "_name_or_path": "krishnakamath/stoic_quotes", "activation": "gelu", "architectures": [ "DistilBertForSequenceClassification" ], "attention_dropout": 0.1, "dim": 768, "dropout": 0.1, "hidden_dim": 3072, "id2label": { "0": "Epictetus says, \"Understand what words you use first, then use them.\"", "1": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them.\"", "2": "Epictetus says, \"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.\"", "3": "Epictetus says, \"It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.\"", "4": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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?\"\"", "5": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Practice even what seems impossible.\"", "6": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.\"", "7": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to. 4.\"", "8": "Seneca says, \"He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.\"", "9": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.\"", "10": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Life is short. That\u2019s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present\u2014thoughtfully, justly. Unrestrained moderation.\"", "11": "Seneca says, \"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man\u2019s power to live long.\"", "12": "Epictetus says, \"Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.\"", "13": "Seneca says, \"It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself for difficult times; while fortune is bestowing favors on it is then is the time for it to be strengthened against her rebuffs.\"", "14": "Seneca says, \"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity!\"", "15": "Seneca says, \"It is better to understand the balance-sheet of one\u2019s own life than of the corn trade.\"", "16": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Its a dream, a fearful dream, life is.\"", "17": "Seneca says, \"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.\"", "18": "Epictetus says, \"Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.\"", "19": "Seneca says, \"The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.\"", "20": "Seneca says, \"The time of the actual enjoyment is short and swift, and made much shorter through their own fault. For they dash from one pleasure to another and cannot stay steady in one desire.\"", "21": "Epictetus says, \"Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow.\"", "22": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"IN THE morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?\"", "23": "Seneca says, \"Istam terra de fossam premat, gravisque terrus impio capiti incubet! (As for her, let her be buried deep in earth, and heavy may the soil lie on her unholy head.).\"", "24": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.\"", "25": "Epictetus says, \"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.\"", "26": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.\"", "27": "Seneca says, \"Hurry up and live.\"", "28": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.\"", "29": "Seneca says, \"Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.\"", "30": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What am I doing with my soul? Interrogate yourself, to find out what inhabits your so-called mind and what kind of soul you have now. A child\u2019s soul, an adolescent\u2019s, a woman\u2019s? A tyrant\u2019s soul? The soul of a predator\u2014or its prey?\"", "31": "Epictetus says, \"We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.\"", "32": "Seneca says, \"It is while Fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence.\"", "33": "Epictetus says, \"And then we\u2019ll be emulating Socrates,* once we\u2019re able to write hymns of praise in prison.\"", "34": "Seneca says, \"No delicate breeze brings comfort with icy breath of wind to the hearts which pant on the flames.\"", "35": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.\"", "36": "Epictetus says, \"Whoever chafes at the conditions dealt by fate is unskilled in the art of life; whoever bears with them nobly and makes wise use of the results is a man who deserves to be considered good.\"", "37": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think of the countless changes in which you yourself have bad a part. The whole universe is change, and life is but what you deem it.\"", "38": "Epictetus says, \"For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.\"", "39": "Cleanthes says, \" Lead me, O Zeus, and thou O Destiny, the way that I am bid by you to go: To follow I am ready. If I choose not, I make myself a wretch, and still must follow.\"", "40": "Seneca says, \"Life\u2019s like a play. It\u2019s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.\"", "41": "Seneca says, \"No man has escaped paying the penalty for being born.\"", "42": "Seneca says, \"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.\"", "43": "Seneca says, \"If you regard your last day not as a punishment but as a law of nature, the breast from which you have banished the dread of death no fear will dare to enter.\"", "44": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your life is what your thoughts make it.\"", "45": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.\"", "46": "Epictetus says, \"Whoever then would be free, let him wish nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.\"", "47": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do every act of your life as if it were your last.\"", "48": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Strength and honor.\"", "49": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Fame in a world like this is worthless.\"", "50": "Epictetus says, \"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.\"", "51": "Seneca says, \"Some men have shrunk so far into dark corners that objects in bright daylight seem quite blurred to them.\u2019 A.\"", "52": "Epictetus says, \"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.\"", "53": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.\"", "54": "Seneca says, \"Life is long and there is enough of it for satisfying personal accomplishments if we use our hours well.\"", "55": "Epictetus says, \"Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!\"", "56": "Seneca says, \"They lose the day in waiting for the night, and the night in fearing the dawn.\"", "57": "Seneca says, \"Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.\"", "58": "Seneca says, \"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.\"", "59": "Seneca says, \"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.\"", "60": "Seneca says, \"This evil of taking our cue from others has become so deeply ingrained that even that most basic feeling, grief, degenerates into imitation.\"", "61": "Seneca says, \"Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.\"", "62": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so.\"", "63": "Epictetus says, \"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.\"", "64": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone.\"", "65": "Epictetus says, \"Only the educated are free.\"", "66": "Seneca says, \"Hold fast, then, to this sound and wholesome rule of life - that you indulge the body only so far as is needful for good health. The body should be treated more rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind.\"", "67": "Seneca says, \"For that love is greater which wins less through equal danger.\"", "68": "Seneca says, \"Different reasons roused different peoples to leave their homes; but this at least is clear, nothing has stayed where it was born. The human race is always on the move.\"", "69": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And not to think of philosophy as your instructor, but as the sponge and egg white that relieve ophthalmia\u2014as a soothing ointment, a warm lotion.\"", "70": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.\"", "71": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.\"", "72": "Seneca says, \"Therefore, my dear Lucilius, begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. He who has thus prepared himself, he whose daily life has been a rounded whole, is easy in his mind.\"", "73": "Epictetus says, \"For your part, do not desire to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free; and the only way to this is a disregard of things which lie not within our own power.\"", "74": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out.\"", "75": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You\u2019ve given aid and they\u2019ve received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?\"", "76": "Seneca says, \"If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.\"", "77": "Epictetus says, \"The knowledge of what is mine and what is not mine, what I can and cannot do. I must die. But must I die bawling? I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?\"", "78": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.\"", "79": "Seneca says, \"Certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.\"", "80": "Epictetus says, \"When things seem to have reached that stage, merely say \u201cI won\u2019t play any longer\u201d, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.\"", "81": "Seneca says, \"And what is more wretched than a man who forgets his benefits and clings to his injuries?\"", "82": "Epictetus says, \"If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.\"", "83": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Manage all your actions, words, and thoughts accordingly, since you may at any moment quit life.\"", "84": "Seneca says, \"All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.\"", "85": "Seneca says, \"All this hurrying from place to place won\u2019t bring you any relief, for you\u2019re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.\"", "86": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"They contemn one another, and yet they seek to please one another: and whilest they seek to surpass one another in worldly pomp and greatness, they most debase and prostitute themselves in their better part one to another.\"", "87": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue at the races, or Light or Heavy in the ring.\"", "88": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Attend to the matter before you, whether it is an opinion or an act or a word. You suffer this justly: for you choose rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today.\"", "89": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Dig deep; the water- goodness- is down there. And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up.\"", "90": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.\"", "91": "Epictetus says, \"If then you desire (aim at) such great things remember that you must not (attempt to) lay hold of them with a small effort.\"", "92": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? In.\"", "93": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You should always look on human life as short and cheap. Yesterday sperm: tomorrow a mummy or ashes.\"", "94": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?\"", "95": "Epictetus says, \"Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.\"", "96": "Epictetus says, \"Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly.\"", "97": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Such as you are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for your soul is dyed through the thoughts.\"", "98": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.\"", "99": "Seneca says, \"But he must have richly dyed purple clothes, woven with gold thread and decorated with multicoloured patterns: it is his fault, not nature\u2019s, if he feels poor.\"", "100": "Epictetus says, \"On the occasion of every accident (event) that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.\"", "101": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of.\"", "102": "Seneca says, \"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.\"", "103": "Epictetus says, \"Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.\"", "104": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.\"", "105": "Seneca says, \"Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk.\"", "106": "Epictetus says, \"As long as you honour material things, direct your anger at yourself rather than the thief or adulterer.\"", "107": "Seneca says, \"The other side shall be heard as well.\"", "108": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?\"", "109": "Seneca says, \"Do you ask what is the foundation of a sound mind? It is, not to find joy in useless things. .\"", "110": "Seneca says, \"The only really leisured people are those who devote time to acquiring true knowledge rather than trivia. .\"", "111": "Epictetus says, \"From this instant, then, choose to act like the worthy and capable person you are. Follow unwaveringly what reason tells you is the best course.\"", "112": "Seneca says, \"This will not be a gentle prescription for healing, but cautery and the knife. What shall I achieve? That a soul which has conquered so many miseries will be ashamed to worry about one more wound in a body which already has so many scars.\"", "113": "Epictetus says, \"Death is not dreadful or else it would have appeared dreadful to Socrates.\"", "114": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The Stoics had always approved of participation in public life, and this stand struck a chord with the Roman aristocracy, whose code of values placed a premium on political and military activity.\"", "115": "Seneca says, \"Anger will abate and become more controlled when it knows it must come before a judge each day.\"", "116": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.\"", "117": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Enter their minds, and you'll find the judges you're so afraid of\u2014and how judiciously they judge themselves.\"", "118": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be content to seem what you really are.\"", "119": "Epictetus says, \"I cannot call somebody \u2018hard-working\u2019 knowing only that they read and write. Even if \u2018all night long\u2019 is added, I cannot say it \u2013 not until I know the focus of all this energy.\"", "120": "Seneca says, \"Above all, my dear Lucilius, make this your business: learn how to feel joy.\"", "121": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!\"", "122": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not one to the thing but to your own estimate to it.\"", "123": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.\"", "124": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A Man's life is dyed the color of his imagination.\"", "125": "Seneca says, \"There is no genius without a touch of madness.\"", "126": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we\u2019re practically showered with them.\"", "127": "Seneca says, \"Thus far, you have indeed not been sluggish, but you must quicken your pace. Much toil remains; to confront it, you must yourself lavish all your waking hours, and all your efforts, if you wish the result to be accomplished.\"", "128": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"We are the other of the other.\"", "129": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What else did you expect from helping someone out? Isn\u2019t it enough that you\u2019ve done what your nature demands? You want a salary for it too? As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That\u2019s what they were made for.\"", "130": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The tranquillity that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. (Is this fair? Is this the right thing to do?) . . . not to be distracted by their darkness. To run straight for the finish line, unswerving.\"", "131": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.\"", "132": "Epictetus says, \"Don't live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.\"", "133": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not let the future disturb you, for you will arrive there, if you arrive, with the same reason you now apply to the present.\"", "134": "Seneca says, \"So you must match time\u2019s swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow.\"", "135": "Epictetus says, \"If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on is way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?\"", "136": "Seneca says, \"No one dies except on his own day. You are throwing away none of your own time; for what you leave behind does not belong to you.\"", "137": "Seneca says, \"Poverty will keep for you your true and tried friends; you will be rid of the men who were not seeking you for yourself, but for something which you have.\"", "138": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike.\"", "139": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.\"", "140": "Seneca says, \"The busy man remains rooted to the ground, ever stuck in the present, a time so brief that it cannot be grasped, and thus it is stolen from him, busy as he is with so many things.\"", "141": "Epictetus says, \"Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.\"", "142": "Seneca says, \"To live under constraint is a misfortune, but there is no constraint to live under constraint.\"", "143": "Seneca says, \"Ask nature: she will tell you that she made both day and night.\"", "144": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.\"", "145": "Seneca says, \"Those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and troubled. They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.\"", "146": "Epictetus says, \"If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.\"", "147": "Seneca says, \"Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.\"", "148": "Seneca says, \"I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital. Listen to me, therefore, as you would if I were talking to myself. .\"", "149": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains.\"", "150": "Epictetus says, \"CIRCUMSTANCES DON\u2019T MAKE THE MAN, THEY ONLY REVEAL HIM TO HIMSELF.\"", "151": "Seneca says, \"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.\"", "152": "Epictetus says, \"Never praise or blame people on common grounds; look to their judgements exclusively. Because that is the determining factor, which makes everyone's actions either good or bad.\"", "153": "Epictetus says, \"For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.\"", "154": "Epictetus says, \"Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day \u2013 especially death \u2013 and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess.\"", "155": "Seneca says, \"In the ashes all men are levelled. We're born unequal, we die equal.\"", "156": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.\"", "157": "Seneca says, \"I am not a \u2018wise man,\u2019 nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.\"", "158": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.\"", "159": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option: to accept this event with humility, to treat this person as he should be treated, or to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in.\"", "160": "Seneca says, \"Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply long for him who orders it properly.\"", "161": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.\"", "162": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every portion of me will be reassigned as another portion of the world, and that in turn transformed into another. Ad infinitum.\"", "163": "Epictetus says, \"I want to die, even though I don't have to.\"", "164": "Epictetus says, \"Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other.\"", "165": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream.\"", "166": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.\"", "167": "Seneca says, \"Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault\u2014those whom they have injured they also hate.\"", "168": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"This world is mere change, and this life, opinion.\"", "169": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a little mucus tomorrow will be a mummy or ashes.\"", "170": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have a mind? \u2014Yes. Well, why not use it? Isn\u2019t that all you want\u2014for it to do its job?\"", "171": "Epictetus says, \"You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.\"", "172": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.\"", "173": "Seneca says, \"Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not only their own lifetime they guard well: they add every age to their own.\"", "174": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.\"", "175": "Epictetus says, \"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.\"", "176": "Seneca says, \"I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.\"", "177": "Epictetus says, \"We aren't filled with fear except by things that are bad; and not by them, either, as long as it is in our power to avoid them.\"", "178": "Epictetus says, \"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.\"", "179": "Seneca says, \"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.\"", "180": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapour, and life is a warfare and a stranger\u2019s sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.\"", "181": "Seneca says, \"I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know, they do not approve, and what they approve, I do not know.\"", "182": "Seneca says, \"What's the use of overcoming opponent after opponent in the wrestling or boxing rings if you can be overcome by your temper?\"", "183": "Seneca says, \"The day which we fear is out last is buth the birthday of eternity.\"", "184": "Seneca says, \"Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.\"", "185": "Epictetus says, \"Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.\"", "186": "Seneca says, \"Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.\"", "187": "Seneca says, \"For a person who is not aware that he is doing anything wrong has no desire to be put right. You have to catch yourself doing it before you can reform.\"", "188": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"\"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.\" That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.\"", "189": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Don\u2019t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you\u2019ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?\"", "190": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The ruler must be a philosopher as well as a king; and he must govern unwillingly, because he loves philosophy better than dominion.\"", "191": "Epictetus says, \"Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.\"", "192": "Epictetus says, \"If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don\u2019t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: \u201cHe does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.\u201c\"", "193": "Epictetus says, \"Make it your goal never to fail in your desires or experience things you would rather avoid; try never to err in impulse and repulsion; aim to be perfect also in the practice of attention and withholding judgment.\"", "194": "Seneca says, \"Longing for the future and weariness of the present.\"", "195": "Seneca says, \"You can put up with a change of place if only the place is changed.\"", "196": "Seneca says, \"Is natural to touch more often the part that hurts.\"", "197": "Seneca says, \"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, \u2013 the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands.\"", "198": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He who eats my bread does my will.\"", "199": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.\"", "200": "Seneca says, \"To what lengths would so precocious an ambition not go?\"", "201": "Seneca says, \"Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes.\"", "202": "Epictetus says, \"You're not yet Socrates, but you can still live as if you want to be him.\"", "203": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess.\"", "204": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.\"", "205": "Epictetus says, \"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.\"", "206": "Seneca says, \"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.\"", "207": "Epictetus says, \"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.\"", "208": "Seneca says, \"Inwardly, we ought to be different in every respect, but our outward dress should blend in with the crowd.\"", "209": "Epictetus says, \"Stop honouring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things.\"", "210": "Seneca says, \"I realize that these mental agitations of mine are not dangerous and won\u2019t produce a storm. To express my complaint for you in a realistic metaphor, I am harried not by a tempest but by sea-sickness.\"", "211": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what\u2019s left and live it properly.\"", "212": "Seneca says, \"It is shameful to hate a person who deserves your praises; but how much more shameful it is to hate someone for the very cause that makes him deserve your pity.\"", "213": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.\"", "214": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.\"", "215": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.\"", "216": "Seneca says, \"Only time can heal what reason cannot.\"", "217": "Seneca says, \"Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.\"", "218": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If you suffer distress because of some external cause, it is not the thing itself that troubles you but your judgement about it, and it is within your power to cancel that judgement at any moment.\"", "219": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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?\"", "220": "Seneca says, \"It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and \u2013 something that may surprise you more \u2013 it takes just as long to learn how to die.\"", "221": "Epictetus says, \"You become what you give your attention to.\"", "222": "Seneca says, \"Consider, too, that a man lifting his head from the very funeral pyre must need some novel vocabulary not drawn from ordinary everyday condolence to comfort his own dear ones.\"", "223": "Seneca says, \"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.\"", "224": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell.\"", "225": "Seneca says, \"While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.\"", "226": "Seneca says, \"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.\"", "227": "Seneca says, \"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.\"", "228": "Seneca says, \"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.\u201d Difficult.\"", "229": "Seneca says, \"F you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.\"", "230": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of a stranger. The only fame after death is oblivion.\"", "231": "Seneca says, \"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.\"", "232": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.\"", "233": "Seneca says, \"It does not make any difference what a man say; what matters is how he feels, and not how he feels on one particular day but how he feels at all times.\"", "234": "Seneca says, \"We ought frequently to remind ourselves that we must love the things of this life as we would what is shortly to leave us, or indeed in the very act of leaving us.\"", "235": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.\"", "236": "Epictetus says, \"You must be one man, either good or bad. You must cultivate either your own ruling faculty or externals, and apply yourself either to things within or without you; that is, be either a philosopher, or one of the vulgar.\"", "237": "Seneca says, \"All that remains of our existence is not actually life but merely time.\"", "238": "Seneca says, \"Pleasure, unless it has been kept within bounds, tends to rush headlong into the abyss of sorrow.\"", "239": "Seneca says, \"Let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow Nature, all is easy and unobstructed; but if we combat Nature, our life differs not a whit from that of men who row against the current.\"", "240": "Epictetus says, \"It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.\"", "241": "Seneca says, \"It is so, my dear Lucilius; there are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.\"", "242": "Seneca says, \"Every man, when he first sees light, is commanded to be content with milk and rags. Such is our beginning, and yet kingdoms are all too small for us!\"", "243": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have no assurance that they are doing wrong at all, for the motives of man's actions are not always what they seem. There is generally much to learn before any judgement can be pronounced with certainty on another's doings.\"", "244": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance\u2014now, at this very moment\u2014of all external events. That\u2019s all you need.\"", "245": "Epictetus says, \"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: \u201cHe was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.\u201c\"", "246": "Epictetus says, \"Do your best to rein in your desire. For if you desire something that isn\u2019t within your own control, disappointment will surely follow; meanwhile, you will be neglecting the very things that are within your control that are worthy of desire.\"", "247": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"", "248": "Epictetus says, \"Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.\"", "249": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.\"", "250": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is ridiculous not to escape from one\u2019s own vices, which is possible, while trying to escape the vices of others, which is impossible.\"", "251": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.\"", "252": "Seneca says, \"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.\"", "253": "Seneca says, \"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.\"", "254": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself.\"", "255": "Epictetus says, \"Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?\"", "256": "Epictetus says, \"On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.\"", "257": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.\"", "258": "Seneca says, \"That man who had prayed for the fasces, when he attains them, desires to lay them aside and says over and over: \u201cWhen will this year be over!\u201d\"", "259": "Seneca says, \"Men learn as they teach.\"", "260": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look at the past\u2014empire succeeding empire\u2014and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events. Which is why observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand. Would you really see anything new?\"", "261": "Epictetus says, \"If any one trusted your body to the first man he met, you would be indignant, but yet you trust your mind to the chance comer, and allow it to be disturbed and confounded if he revile you; are you not ashamed to do so?\"", "262": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.\"", "263": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It loved to happen.\"", "264": "Seneca says, \"Every pleasure is most valued when it is coming to an end.\"", "265": "Seneca says, \"Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present.\"", "266": "Seneca says, \"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.\"", "267": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"", "268": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever happens to every man, this is for the interest of the universal.\"", "269": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.\"", "270": "Seneca says, \"Everyone goes out of life just as if he had but lately entered.\"", "271": "Seneca says, \"I shall expose and reopen all the wounds which have already healed.\"", "272": "Seneca says, \"Would you rather be poor and sated, or rich and hungry? Prosperity is not only greedy, but it also lies exposed to the greed of others. And as long as nothing satisfies you, you yourself cannot satisfy others.\"", "273": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.\"", "274": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.\"", "275": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That all is as thinking makes it so \u2013 and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay.\"", "276": "Seneca says, \"Fire tests gold and adversity tests the brave.\"", "277": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.\"", "278": "Seneca says, \"The man who tries to find out what has been said against him, who seeks to unearth spiteful gossip, even when engaged in privately, is destroying his own peace of mind.\"", "279": "Seneca says, \"Making noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.\"", "280": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.\"", "281": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"But by all means bear this in mind, that within a very short time both thou and he will be dead; and soon not even your names will be left behind.\"", "282": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed.\"", "283": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"", "284": "Seneca says, \"It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.\"", "285": "Seneca says, \"If wisdom were offered me on the one condition that I should keep it shut away and not divulge it to anyone, I should reject it. There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.\"", "286": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.\"", "287": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?\"", "288": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The soul becomes dyed with the colours of its thoughts.\"", "289": "Seneca says, \"Ask about those whose names are learned by heart, and you will see that they have these distinguishing marks: X cultivates Y and Y cultivates Z \u2013 no one bothers about himself.\"", "290": "Epictetus says, \"Lucky is the man who dies at work.\"", "291": "Seneca says, \"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.\"", "292": "Epictetus says, \"Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.\"", "293": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.\"", "294": "Epictetus says, \"Do not get too attached to life for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.\"", "295": "Epictetus says, \"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.\"", "296": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All that comes to pass is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring, and the grape in summer. Of like fashion are sickness, death, calumny, intrigue, and all that gladdens or saddens the foolish.\"", "297": "Seneca says, \"Every new beginning comes from other beginning\u2019s end.\"", "298": "Seneca says, \"And what\u2019s so bad about your being deprived of that? All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft through a life of luxury, ailing more in the mind than they ever are in the body.\"", "299": "Seneca says, \"It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.\"", "300": "Seneca says, \"There has never been a great mind without some degree of madness.\"", "301": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For the entire earth is but a point, and the place of your own habitation but a minute corner in it. Remember then to withdraw into the little field of self. Above all, never struggle or strain; but be master of yourself.\"", "302": "Epictetus says, \"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.\"", "303": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For all things fade and turn to fable, and quickly too, utter oblivion covers them like sand.\"", "304": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which happened in the most distant past and that which will happen in the future.\"", "305": "Seneca says, \"That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.\"", "306": "Seneca says, \"No man, if he be ungrateful, will be unhappy in the future. I allow him no day of grace; he is unhappy forthwith.\"", "307": "Epictetus says, \"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.\"", "308": "Epictetus says, \"You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.\"", "309": "Seneca says, \"Kings hate to hear the things they order spoken.\"", "310": "Seneca says, \"because it is natural to touch more often the parts that hurt.\"", "311": "Seneca says, \"Silently time sneaks up on you, each hour gone is followed by a worse one.\"", "312": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.\"", "313": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you are offended at any man\u2019s fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred.\"", "314": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.\"", "315": "Seneca says, \"How much better it is that you defeat anger than that it defeats itself!\"", "316": "Seneca says, \"As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.\"", "317": "Seneca says, \"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself.\"", "318": "Seneca says, \"Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure, but never enjoy it.\"", "319": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.\"", "320": "Seneca says, \"The mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply.\"", "321": "Seneca says, \"What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.\"", "322": "Seneca says, \"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.\"", "323": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.\"", "324": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.\"", "325": "Seneca says, \"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you? You are saddled with the very thing that drove you away.\"", "326": "Epictetus says, \"No man is free until he is a master of himself!!\"", "327": "Seneca says, \"All life is a servitude. So you have to get used to your circumstances, complain about them as little as possible, and grasp whatever advantage they have to offer: no condition is so bitter that a stable mind cannot find some consolation in it.\"", "328": "Seneca says, \"How much happier is the man who owes nothing to anybody except the one he can most easily refuse, himself!\"", "329": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Let not the future trouble you; for you will come to it, if come you must, bearing with you the same reason which you are using now to meet the present.\"", "330": "Epictetus says, \"People with a strong physical constitution can tolerate extremes of hot and cold; people of strong mental health can handle anger, grief, joy and the other emotions.\"", "331": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.\"", "332": "Epictetus says, \"You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.\"", "333": "Seneca says, \"Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.\"", "334": "Seneca says, \"Poor woman, do you want to know where hatred ends? Look to love.\"", "335": "Seneca says, \"I will storm the gods, and shake the universe.\"", "336": "Epictetus says, \"Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don\u2019t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought.\"", "337": "Seneca says, \"One can expect an agreement between philosophers sooner than between clocks.\"", "338": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.\"", "339": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.\"", "340": "Epictetus says, \"You see, then, that it is necessary for you to become a student, that creature which every one laughs at, if you really desire to make an examination of your judgements. But this, as you are quite aware, is not the work of a single hour or day.\"", "341": "Seneca says, \"Vices have to be crushed rather than picked at.\"", "342": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not to assume it\u2019s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it\u2019s humanly possible, you can do it too.\"", "343": "Seneca says, \"What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you\u2019re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.\"", "344": "Seneca says, \"But our friend Bassus stays sharp minded. Philosophy furnishes him with this: to be cheerful when death comes in view, to stay strong and happy no matter what one\u2019s bodily condition.\"", "345": "Seneca says, \"Do the one thing that can render you really happy: cast aside and trample under foot all the things that glitter outwardly and are held out to you a by another or as obtainable from another.\"", "346": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"This then remains: Remember to retire into this little territory of thy own, and, above all, do not distract or strain thyself, but be free, at look and things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal.\"", "347": "Epictetus says, \"The wise person knows it is fruitless to project hopes and fears on the future. This only leads to forming melodramatic representations in your mind and wasting time.\"", "348": "Epictetus says, \"Difficulty shows what men are.\"", "349": "Epictetus says, \"You are a little soul carrying a dead body, as Epictetus said.\"", "350": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration? Does gold, or ivory, or purple? A lyre or a dagger, a rosebud or a sapling?\"", "351": "Seneca says, \"Every pleasure is most valued when it is coming to an end?\"", "352": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.\"", "353": "Epictetus says, \"If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.\"", "354": "Epictetus says, \"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.\"", "355": "Epictetus says, \"Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it. Pay no attention to whatever people might say; this no longer should influence you.\"", "356": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"My city and my country, as I am Antoninus, is Rome; as I am a man, it is the world.\"", "357": "Epictetus says, \"Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.\"", "358": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Let it happen, if it wants, to whatever it can happen to. And what\u2019s affected can complain about it if it wants. It doesn\u2019t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.\"", "359": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is only this present, a moment of time, that a man lives: all the rest either has been lived or may never be.\"", "360": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You\u2019re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.\"", "361": "Seneca says, \"No condition is so distressing that a balanced mind cannot find some comfort in it.\"", "362": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"There is a kind of river of things passing into being and Time is a violent torrent. For no sooner is each seen, than it has been carried away, and another is being carried by, and that, too, will be carried away.\"", "363": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.\"", "364": "Seneca says, \"The wise man is self-sufficient, that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them. When I say \"can,\" I mean this: he endures the loss of a friend with equanimity.\"", "365": "Seneca says, \"Your greatest difficulty is with yourself; for you are your own stumbling-block.\"", "366": "Epictetus says, \"Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.\"", "367": "Seneca says, \"The busy man is busy with everything except living; there is nothing that is more difficult to learn how to do right.\"", "368": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To pass through this brief life as nature demands. To give it up without complaint. Like an olive that ripens and falls. Praising its mother, thanking the tree it grew on.\"", "369": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The fencer\u2019s weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer\u2019s is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.\"", "370": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever happens, happens rightly. Watch closely, and you will find this true. In the succession of events there is not mere sequence alone, but an order that is just right, as from the hand of one who dispense to their due.\"", "371": "Seneca says, \"Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.\"", "372": "Seneca says, \"There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.\"", "373": "Seneca says, \"Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at.\"", "374": "Seneca says, \"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.\"", "375": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous.\"", "376": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To recover your life is within your power; simply view things again as once you viewed them, for your revival rests in that.\"", "377": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.\"", "378": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"But fortunate means that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune: and a good fortune is good disposition of the soul, good emotions, good actions.\"", "379": "Epictetus says, \"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.\"", "380": "Seneca says, \"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it's been given to us in generous measure for accomplishing the greatest things, if the whole of it is well invested.\"", "381": "Seneca says, \"Why need we weep over parts of our life? the whole of it calls for tears: new miseries assail us before we have freed ourselves from the old ones.\"", "382": "Seneca says, \"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.\"", "383": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.\"", "384": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You\u2019re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.\"", "385": "Seneca says, \"Why do you voluntarily deceive yourself and require to be told now for the first time what fate it is that you have long been labouring under? Take my word for it: since the day you were born you are being led thither.\"", "386": "Seneca says, \"Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.\"", "387": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.\"", "388": "Epictetus says, \"In short, we do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it.\"", "389": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Similarly, man is born for deeds of kindness; and when he has done a kindly action, or otherwise served the common welfare, he has done what he was made for, and has received his quittance.\"", "390": "Epictetus says, \"It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.\"", "391": "Seneca says, \"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 with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.\"", "392": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Where a man can live, there he can also live well. But he must live in a palace;- well then, he can also live well in a palace.\"", "393": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.\"", "394": "Epictetus says, \"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.\"", "395": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: the bodies and substances themselves, into the matter and substance of the world: and their memories into the general age and time of the world.\"", "396": "Seneca says, \"The things that are indispensable require no elaborate pains for their acquisition; it is only the luxuries that call for labour. Follow nature, and you will need no skilled craftsmen.\"", "397": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.\"", "398": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?\"", "399": "Seneca says, \"We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who were allotted to us, that they were given to us by chance. But we can choose whose children we would like to be.\"", "400": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.\"", "401": "Seneca says, \"How much better to follow a straight course and attain a goal where the words \"pleasant\" and \"honourable\" have the same meaning!\"", "402": "Seneca says, \"It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks.\"", "403": "Epictetus says, \"Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.\"", "404": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it\u2019s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it\u2019s unendurable \u2026 then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.\"", "405": "Seneca says, \"The preoccupied become aware of it only when it is over.\"", "406": "Epictetus says, \"We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.\"", "407": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Vex not thy spirit at the course of things,they not heed thy vexations.\"", "408": "Epictetus says, \"Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.\"", "409": "Seneca says, \"They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.\"", "410": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"", "411": "Seneca says, \"We abandon nature and surrender to the mob \u2013 who are never good advisers in anything, and in this respect as in all others are most inconsistent.\"", "412": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.\"", "413": "Epictetus says, \"What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. \u2018How does it come, then?\u2019 As God wills.\"", "414": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. .\"", "415": "Seneca says, \"But consider whether you may not get more help from the customary method than from that which is now commonly called a \"breviary,\" though in the good old days, when real Latin was spoken, it was called a \"summary\".\"", "416": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?\"", "417": "Epictetus says, \"Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.\"", "418": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Pride is a master of deception: when you think you\u2019re occupied in the weightiest business, that\u2019s when he has you in his spell.\"", "419": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.\"", "420": "Epictetus says, \"So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.\"", "421": "Seneca says, \"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.\"", "422": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.\"", "423": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power. Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner, who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.\"", "424": "Seneca says, \"If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.\"", "425": "Epictetus says, \"When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true.\"", "426": "Seneca says, \"Revenge is an admission that we have been hurt. That cannot be a great mind which is disturbed by injury. He who has hurt you must be either stronger or weaker than yourself. If he be weaker, spare him: if he be stronger, spare yourself.\"", "427": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"So here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, \u2018This is a misfortune,\u2019 but \u2018To bear this worthily is good fortune.\"", "428": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present...\"", "429": "Epictetus says, \"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.\"", "430": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When the object perishes, the pneuma that animated it is reabsorbed into the logos as a whole. This process of destruction and reintegration happens to individual objects at every moment.\"", "431": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That I have such a wife, so obedient.\"", "432": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The best kind of revenge is not to become like them.\"", "433": "Seneca says, \"If you wish to fear nothing, consider that all things are to be feared.\"", "434": "Epictetus says, \"Conduct yourself in all matters, grand and public or small and domestic, in accordance with the laws of nature. Harmonizing your will with nature should be your utmost ideal.\"", "435": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever may happen to you, it was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being, and of that which is incident to it.\"", "436": "Seneca says, \"To be everywhere is to be nowhere.\"", "437": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The earth, saith the poet, doth often long after the rain. So is the glorious sky often as desirous to fall upon the earth, which argues a mutual kind of love between them.\"", "438": "Epictetus says, \"Why do you want to read anyway \u2013 for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn\u2019t make you peaceful, what good is it?\"", "439": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He is so rich, he has no room to shit.\"", "440": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Let the god that is within you be the champion of the being you are.\"", "441": "Seneca says, \"There is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn\u2019t know where to go.\"", "442": "Seneca says, \"While we wait for life, life passes.\"", "443": "Seneca says, \"If you have nothing to stir you up and rouse you to action, nothing which will test your resolution by its threats and hostilities; if you recline in unshaken comfort, it is not tranquillity; it is merely a flat calm.\"", "444": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Yes, keep on degrading yourself, soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.\"", "445": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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\u2019t tell good from evil.\"", "446": "Seneca says, \"Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.\"", "447": "Epictetus says, \"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.\"", "448": "Epictetus says, \"Don\u2019t seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you\u2019ll have a calm and happy life.\"", "449": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That you don\u2019t know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people\u2019s actions with real understanding.\"", "450": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.\"", "451": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.\"", "452": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I learned endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.\"", "453": "Epictetus says, \"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.\"", "454": "Epictetus says, \"We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.\"", "455": "Epictetus says, \"Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men.\"", "456": "Seneca says, \"Distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction).\"", "457": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I think the truth , which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence and self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.\"", "458": "Seneca says, \"Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.\"", "459": "Seneca says, \"That advocate is lionized throughout the whole forum, and fills all the place with a great crowd that stretches farther than he can be heard, yet he says: \u201cWhen will vacation time come?\u201d\"", "460": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.\"", "461": "Seneca says, \"So I have never believed that there was any genuine good in the things which everyone prays for; what is more, I have found them empty and daubed with showy and deceptive colours, with nothing inside to match their appearance.\"", "462": "Epictetus says, \"What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard?\u2014 It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.\"", "463": "Epictetus says, \"Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.\"", "464": "Seneca says, \"Ubicumque ex aequo ad caelum erigitur acies, paribus intervallis omnia divina ab omnibus humanis distant - From whatever point on the earth's surface you look up to heaven the same distance lies between the realms of gods and men.\"", "465": "Seneca says, \"Mankind is perpetually the victim of a pointless and futile martydom, fretting life away in fruitless worries though failure to realise what limit is set to acquisition and to the growth of genuine pleasure.\"", "466": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"\"", "467": "Epictetus says, \"Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.\"", "468": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If anyone can refute me\u2014show me I\u2019m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective\u2014I\u2019ll gladly change. It\u2019s the truth I\u2019m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.\"", "469": "Seneca says, \"There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable.\"", "470": "Seneca says, \"Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it.\"", "471": "Seneca says, \"It is a question whether he died by his own hand; for he fell from a sudden wound received in his groin, some doubting whether his death was voluntary, no one, whether it was timely.\"", "472": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.\"", "473": "Seneca says, \"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.\"", "474": "Seneca says, \"What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?\"", "475": "Seneca says, \"A person teaching and a person learning,' he said, 'should have the same end in view: the improvement of the latter.\"", "476": "Epictetus says, \"Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely.\"", "477": "Seneca says, \"A man who makes a decision without listening to both sides is unjust, even if his ruling is a fair one.\"", "478": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: \"Whatever anyone does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.\"\"", "479": "Seneca says, \"What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?\"", "480": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It\u2019s silly to try to escape other people\u2019s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.\"", "481": "Seneca says, \"Anyone who likes may make things easier for himself by viewing them with equanimity.\"", "482": "Epictetus says, \"Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal \u0097 that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at the appointed season of the year.\"", "483": "Epictetus says, \"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.\"", "484": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.\"", "485": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The existence of evil does not harm the world. And an individual act of evil does not harm the victim. Only one person is harmed by it\u2014and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to.\"", "486": "Seneca says, \"How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!\"", "487": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He who loves fame considers another man\u2019s activity to be his own good; and he who loves pleasure, his own sensations; but he who has understanding, considers his own acts to be his own good.\"", "488": "Epictetus says, \"It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards. And often it is best for us not to pay the price, for the price might be our integrity.\"", "489": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your principles have life in them. For how can they perish, unless the ideas that correspond to them are extinguished? And it is up to you to be constantly fanning them into new flame.\"", "490": "Seneca says, \"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.\"", "491": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.\"", "492": "Seneca says, \"What is sweeter than to be so valued by one's wife that one becomes more valuable to oneself for this reason? Hence my dear Paulina is able to make me responsible, not only for her fears, but also for my own.\"", "493": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If you\u2019re honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.\"", "494": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"There\u2019s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.\"", "495": "Epictetus says, \"In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.\"", "496": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.\"", "497": "Epictetus says, \"Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.\"", "498": "Epictetus says, \"Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.\"", "499": "Seneca says, \"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.\"", "500": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing that goes on in anyone else\u2019s mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you. \u2014Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it.\"", "501": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.\"", "502": "Epictetus says, \"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.\"", "503": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you.\"", "504": "Seneca says, \"The geometrician teaches me how I may avoid losing any fraction of my estates, but what I really want to learn is how to lose the lot and still keep smiling.\"", "505": "Seneca says, \"It is wrong not to stretch out your hand to the fallen: that is a common law of the human race.\"", "506": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.\"", "507": "Seneca says, \"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.\"", "508": "Seneca says, \"Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.\"", "509": "Seneca says, \"It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.\"", "510": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Try how the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who is satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his own just acts and benevolent disposition.\"", "511": "Epictetus says, \"Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.\"", "512": "Seneca says, \"But you never deign to look at yourself or listen to yourself. So you have no reason to claim credit from anyone for those attentions, since you showed them not because you wanted someone else\u2019s company but because you could not bearyour own.\"", "513": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.\"", "514": "Seneca says, \"Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts.\"", "515": "Seneca says, \"Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.\"", "516": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Waste no more time arguing that a good man should be. Be one.\"", "517": "Seneca says, \"To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.\"", "518": "Seneca says, \"Time flies on fickle wings.\"", "519": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Wait for it patiently\u2014annihilation or metamorphosis.\"", "520": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Don\u2019t look at things the way wrong-doers do. Don\u2019t look at things as wrong-doers want you too, either. Instead, strive to see things in truth, as they really are.\"", "521": "Epictetus says, \"Remember from now on whenever something tends to make you unhappy, draw on this principle: 'This is no misfortune; but bearing with it bravely is a blessing.\"", "522": "Seneca says, \"He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.\"", "523": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.\"", "524": "Epictetus says, \"Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.\"", "525": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything that happens in life.\"", "526": "Seneca says, \"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.\"", "527": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.\"", "528": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.\"", "529": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.\"", "530": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.\"", "531": "Seneca says, \"There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.\"", "532": "Epictetus says, \"If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.\"", "533": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs.\"", "534": "Seneca says, \"Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.\"", "535": "Seneca says, \"Am I not to inquire into the identity of the artist of this universe?\"", "536": "Seneca says, \"Never will there be a shortage of reasons for anxiety, whether born of happiness or misery; life will press on its way from one pursuit to another; leisure will never be enjoyed, though the prayer is constantly on our lips.\"", "537": "Seneca says, \"It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants, but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.\"", "538": "Epictetus says, \"What makes for freedom and fluency in the practice of writing? Knowledge of how to write. The same goes for the practice of playing an instrument. It follows that, in the conduct of life, there must be a science to living well.\"", "539": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature.\"", "540": "Seneca says, \"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.\"", "541": "Epictetus says, \"Adopt new habits yourself: consolidate your principles by putting them into practice.\"", "542": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly.\"", "543": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not be ashamed of help.\"", "544": "Epictetus says, \"If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.\"", "545": "Seneca says, \"He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.\"", "546": "Seneca says, \"The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.\"", "547": "Epictetus says, \"Greatness of reason is measured not by height or length, but by the quality of its judgements.\"", "548": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned\u2014to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.\"", "549": "Epictetus says, \"You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control.\"", "550": "Epictetus says, \"You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.\"", "551": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option: to accept this event with humility; to treat this person as he should be treated; to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in.\"", "552": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.\"", "553": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.\"", "554": "Epictetus says, \"What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.\"", "555": "Epictetus says, \"Who is your master? Whoever has authority over anything that you\u2019re anxious to gain or avoid.\"", "556": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.\"", "557": "Seneca says, \"Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: 'Is this the condition that I feared?\"", "558": "Seneca says, \"In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet, when it comes to the matter of wasting time, in the case of the one thing in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most prodigal.\"", "559": "Epictetus says, \"An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.\"", "560": "Seneca says, \"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.\"", "561": "Epictetus says, \"Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us show them that they have power over none.\"", "562": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You can live here as you expect to live there.\"", "563": "Seneca says, \"Love of bustle is not industry.\"", "564": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Accept the things to which life binds you, and love the people with whom life brings you together, but do so with all your heart.\"", "565": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.\"", "566": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.\"", "567": "Epictetus says, \"And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.\"", "568": "Seneca says, \"To make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.\"", "569": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not suppose you are hurt, and your complaint ceases; cease your complaint, and you are not hurt.\"", "570": "Seneca says, \"It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it.\"", "571": "Epictetus says, \"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.\"", "572": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.\"", "573": "Seneca says, \"Hence the dictum of the greatest of doctors:\u2020 \u2018Life is short, art is long.\"", "574": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Beautiful things of any kind are beautiful in themselves and sufficient to themselves. Praise is extraneous. The object of praise remains what it was\u2014no better and no worse.\"", "575": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.\"", "576": "Seneca says, \"In times of happiness, no point in shaking things up. But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change.\"", "577": "Seneca says, \"No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed.\"", "578": "Seneca says, \"Disasters, therefore, and losses, and wrongs, have only the same power over virtue that a cloud has over the sun.\"", "579": "Epictetus says, \"As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.\"", "580": "Seneca says, \"Speak ill of yourself when by yourself; then you will become accustomed both to speak and to hear the truth.\"", "581": "Seneca says, \"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.\"", "582": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Use thyself even unto those things that thou doest at first despair of. For the left hand we see, which for the most part hieth idle because not used; yet doth it hold the bridle with more strength than the right, because it hath been used unto it.\"", "583": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The whole Universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it.\"", "584": "Seneca says, \"Life is long if you know how to use it.\"", "585": "Seneca says, \"Whenever I wish to enjoy the quips of a clown, I am not compelled to hunt far; I can laugh at myself.\"", "586": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.\"", "587": "Epictetus says, \"Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.\"", "588": "Epictetus says, \"Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself. abide by them as they were laws, and as if you would be guilty of impiety by violating any of them. Don\u2019t regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.\"", "589": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?\"", "590": "Seneca says, \"Why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave? .\"", "591": "Epictetus says, \"Never say about anything, I have lost it, but only I have given it back.\"", "592": "Seneca says, \"Being without your country is not misery: you have thoroughly taught yourself by your studies to know that to a wise man every place is his country.\"", "593": "Seneca says, \"Honours, monuments, whatever the ambitious have ordered by decrees or raised in public buildings are soon destroyed: there is nothing that the passage of time does not demolish and remove.\"", "594": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.\"", "595": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience.\"", "596": "Seneca says, \"Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.\"", "597": "Epictetus says, \"Faced with pain, you will discover the power of endurance. If you are insulted, you will discover patience. In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate.\"", "598": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.\"", "599": "Seneca says, \"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.\"", "600": "Epictetus says, \"For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!\"", "601": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...\"", "602": "Epictetus says, \"No great thing is created suddenly.\"", "603": "Seneca says, \"Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by.\"", "604": "Seneca says, \"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.\"", "605": "Seneca says, \"To be everywhere, is to be no where at all.\"", "606": "Seneca says, \"Part of my joy in learning is that it puts me in a position to teach; nothing, however outstanding and however helpful, will ever give me any pleasure if the knowledge is for my benefit alone.\"", "607": "Seneca says, \"No man is so faint-hearted that he would rather hang in suspense for ever than drop once for all.\"", "608": "Seneca says, \"Not all men are wounded in the same place; and so you ought to know what part of you is weak, so you can give it the most protection.\"", "609": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Give up your thirst for books so that you do not die a grouch.\"", "610": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.\"", "611": "Epictetus says, \"There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.\"", "612": "Epictetus says, \"Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.\"", "613": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.\"", "614": "Epictetus says, \"Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.\"", "615": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.\"", "616": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Things: and the vanity of praise, and the inconstancy.\"", "617": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.\"", "618": "Epictetus says, \"Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.\"", "619": "Epictetus says, \"Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.\"", "620": "Seneca says, \"The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.\"", "621": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called, i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.\"", "622": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Receive without conceit, release without struggle.\"", "623": "Seneca says, \"The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.\"", "624": "Seneca says, \"It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.\"", "625": "Epictetus says, \"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.\"", "626": "Epictetus says, \"For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.\"", "627": "Seneca says, \"Unless we are complete ingrates, the lives of all those men that preceded us should be seen as sacred. Their collective existence paved the way for our own time on Earth.\"", "628": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"", "629": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All is ephemeral, both what remembers and what is remembered.\"", "630": "Epictetus says, \"Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, \"He who is content.\"\"", "631": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And as upon thy face and looks, thy mind hath easily power over them to keep them to that which is grave and decent; so let it challenge the same power over the whole body also.\"", "632": "Epictetus says, \"Goodness exists independently of our conception of it. The good is out there and it always has been out there, even before we began to exist.\"", "633": "Epictetus says, \"If you wish to be a writer, write.\"", "634": "Epictetus says, \"Finally, when he crowns it off by becoming a senator, then he becomes a slave in fine company, then he experiences the poshest and most prestigious form of enslavement.\"", "635": "Seneca says, \"Nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent changes of treatment.\"", "636": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.\"", "637": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"", "638": "Epictetus says, \"Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father.\"", "639": "Epictetus says, \"If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only.\"", "640": "Seneca says, \"No man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.\"", "641": "Seneca says, \"If i had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born.\"", "642": "Epictetus says, \"Most people are impulsive, however, and having committed to the thing, they persist, just making more confusion for themselves and others until it all end in mutual recrimination.\"", "643": "Seneca says, \"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.\"", "644": "Seneca says, \"Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits.\"", "645": "Seneca says, \"To be everywhere; is to nowhere.\"", "646": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Yes, you can\u2014if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.\"", "647": "Seneca says, \"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.\"", "648": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.\"", "649": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it.\"", "650": "Epictetus says, \"It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.\"", "651": "Epictetus says, \"\"Who is a friend?\" his answer was, \"A second self (alter ego).\"\"", "652": "Epictetus says, \"It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.\"", "653": "Seneca says, \"Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors. And whenever it strikes you how much power you have over your slave, let it also strike you that your own master has just as much power over you.\"", "654": "Epictetus says, \"Free is the person who lives as he wishes and cannot be coerced, impeded or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.\"", "655": "Epictetus says, \"Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us.\"", "656": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed.\"", "657": "Seneca says, \"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.\"", "658": "Seneca says, \"Beyond all things is the sea.\"", "659": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish that they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.\"", "660": "Epictetus says, \"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.\"", "661": "Seneca says, \"No one becomes a laughingstock who laughs at himself.\"", "662": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it with. And that I was never put in that position myself\u2014of having to take something from someone else.\"", "663": "Epictetus says, \"Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.\"", "664": "Seneca says, \"Therefore it is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it. For if it has withdrawn, being merely beguiled by pleasures and preoccupations, it starts up again and from its very respite gains force to savage us.\"", "665": "Seneca says, \"Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.\"", "666": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I have no right to do myself an injury. Have I ever injured anyone else if I could avoid it?\"", "667": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Fire feeds on obstacles.\"", "668": "Seneca says, \"It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.\"", "669": "Epictetus says, \"Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.\"", "670": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved.\"", "671": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"So other people hurt me? That\u2019s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.\"", "672": "Epictetus says, \"If you wish to be a writer; write!\"", "673": "Seneca says, \"This wretched body, the chain and prison of the soul, is tossed hither and thither; upon it punishment and pillage and disease wreak havoc: but the soul itself is holy and eternal, and it cannot be assailed with violence.\"", "674": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.\"", "675": "Seneca says, \"O how many noble deeds of women are lost in obscurity!\"", "676": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant.\"", "677": "Seneca says, \"Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.\"", "678": "Seneca says, \"It was nature\u2019s intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.\"", "679": "Seneca says, \"New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.\"", "680": "Epictetus says, \"People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance.\"", "681": "Epictetus says, \"Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.\"", "682": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch, but in true grace and heartfelt gratitude to the god.\"", "683": "Seneca says, \"When things are at their worst, there are no tears.\"", "684": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.\"", "685": "Seneca says, \"It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.\"", "686": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.\"", "687": "Seneca says, \"I never spend a day in idleness; I appropriate even a part of the night for study. I do not allow time for sleep but yield to it when I must, and when my eyes are wearied with waking and ready to fall shut, I keep them at their task.\"", "688": "Seneca says, \"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.\"", "689": "Seneca says, \"Therefore, nothing ought to be unexpected by us. Our minds should be sent forward in advance to meet all problems, and we should consider, not what is wont to happen, but what can happen.\"", "690": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small\u2014small.\"", "691": "Epictetus says, \"In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always.\"", "692": "Epictetus says, \"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.\"", "693": "Seneca says, \"We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.\"", "694": "Seneca says, \"We shall be rich with all the more comfort, if we once learn how far poverty is from being a burden.\"", "695": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If our intellectual part is common, the reason also, in respect of which we are rational beings, is common: if this is so, common also is the reason which commands us what to do, and what not to do.\"", "696": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Then consider the Middle (and later the New) Comedy and what it aimed at\u2014gradually degenerating into mere realism and empty technique.\"", "697": "Seneca says, \"To have may be taken from us, to have had, never. A man is thankless in the highest degree if, after losing something, he feels no obligation for having received it.\"", "698": "Epictetus says, \"Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.\"", "699": "Seneca says, \"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.\"", "700": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?\"", "701": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your character is simply the sum of your thoughts over time.\"", "702": "Seneca says, \"While we are postponing, life speeds by.\"", "703": "Seneca says, \"We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.\"", "704": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That there is but a certain limit of time appointed unto thee, which if thou shalt not make use of to calm and allay the many distempers of thy soul, it will pass away and thou with it, and never after return.\"", "705": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you\u2014inside or out.\"", "706": "Seneca says, \"Those who forget the past, ignore the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and filled with anxiety.\"", "707": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.\"", "708": "Seneca says, \"It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.\"", "709": "Epictetus says, \"It is a universal law \u2014 have no illusion \u2014 that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.\"", "710": "Seneca says, \"No man finds it difficult to return to nature, except the man who has deserted nature. We.\"", "711": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The other is that all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed. The universe is transformation: life is opinion.\"", "712": "Seneca says, \"The belly will not listen to advice; it makes demands, it importunes. And yet it is not a troublesome creditor; you can send it away at small cost, provided only that you give it what you owe, not merely all you are able to.\"", "713": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper.\"", "714": "Epictetus says, \"The husbandman deals with land; physicians and trainers with the body; the wise man with his own Mind.\"", "715": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Each of us lives only now, in this brief instant. The rest of our life has been lived already, or is impossible to see because it lies in the unknowable future.\"", "716": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.\"", "717": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Stop whatever you\u2019re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won\u2019t be able to do this anymore?\"", "718": "Seneca says, \"The best compromise between love and good sense is both to feel longing and to conquer it.\"", "719": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.\"", "720": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.\"", "721": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A philosopher without clothes and one without books. \u201cI have nothing to eat,\u201d says he, as he stands there half-naked, \u201cbut I subsist on the logos.\u201d And with nothing to read, I subsist on it too.\"", "722": "Seneca says, \"'It is unbearable to be deprived of your country.' Come now, look at this mass of people whom the buildings of huge Rome can scarcely hold: most of that crowd are deprived of their country.\"", "723": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Call to mind the whole of Substance of which you have a very small portion, and the whole of time whereof a small hair's breadth has been determined for you, and of the chain of causation whereof you are how small a link.\"", "724": "Epictetus says, \"When you find your direction, check to make sure that it is the right one.\"", "725": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The pomps and glories which he despised were all his; what to most men is an ambition or a dream, to him was a round of weary tasks which nothing but the stern sense of duty could carry him through. And he did his work well.\"", "726": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.\"", "727": "Seneca says, \"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.\"", "728": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"\u200eBegin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.\"", "729": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.\"", "730": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How soon will time cover all things.\"", "731": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.\"", "732": "Epictetus says, \"First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.\"", "733": "Epictetus says, \"But first consider how much more sparing and patient of hardship the poor are than we.\"", "734": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.\"", "735": "Epictetus says, \"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.\"", "736": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.\"", "737": "Epictetus says, \"If you must be affected by other people's misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt. Drop this readiness to hate and take offence.\"", "738": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Choose not to be harmed\u2014and you won\u2019t feel harmed. Don\u2019t feel harmed\u2014and you haven\u2019t been.\"", "739": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To the world: Your harmony is mine. Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.\"", "740": "Seneca says, \"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.\"", "741": "Seneca says, \"Harmony makes small things grow; lack of harmony makes great things decay.\"", "742": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Life is opinion.\"", "743": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.\"", "744": "Epictetus says, \"You are the one who knows yourself - which is to say, you know how much you are worth in your own estimation, and therefore at what price you will sell yourself; because people sell themselves at different rates.\"", "745": "Epictetus says, \"I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?\"", "746": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When it allows its action and impulse to be without a purpose, to be random and disconnected: even the smallest things ought to be directed toward a goal.\"", "747": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary\u2026.\"", "748": "Seneca says, \"Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.)-A Wrinkle in Time.\"", "749": "Epictetus says, \"Taking account of the value of externals, you see, comes at some cost to the value of one's own character.\"", "750": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.\"", "751": "Epictetus says, \"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.\"", "752": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?\"", "753": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And to be easy and ready to be reconciled, and well pleased again with them that had offended me, as soon as any of them would be content to seek unto me again.\"", "754": "Seneca says, \"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.\"", "755": "Epictetus says, \"Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, \"By setting himself to live the noblest life himself.\"\"", "756": "Epictetus says, \"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!\u2019.\"", "757": "Seneca says, \"From this state also will he flee. If I should attempt to enumerate them one by one, I should not find a single one which could tolerate the wise man or which the wise man could tolerate.\"", "758": "Seneca says, \"Fortune recently took away her mother, but your love will mean that she will only grieve over her mother\u2019s loss but not suffer for it.\"", "759": "Epictetus says, \"If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you\u2019ll find fault with no one, you\u2019ll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.\"", "760": "Seneca says, \"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.\"", "761": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.\"", "762": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.\"", "763": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"We are all mere nuggets of incense on the one altar. Some burn down now , some later - there is no difference .\"", "764": "Seneca says, \"Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.\"", "765": "Seneca says, \"It takes you more time to solve a problem than to set it.\"", "766": "Seneca says, \"A pleasure that is ephemeral brings no true satisfaction to any man. How miserable must be the lives of those folk who labor so hard for something that once gained they must work even harder to keep.\"", "767": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it.\"", "768": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.\"", "769": "Seneca says, \"Fortune attacks us as often as we attack Fortune. It.\"", "770": "Seneca says, \"A great mind becomes a great fortune.\"", "771": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.\"", "772": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this.\"", "773": "Seneca says, \"You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you.\"", "774": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren\u2019t aiming to do the impossible. \u2014Aiming to do what, then? To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.\"", "775": "Seneca says, \"Restless people often pretend to be calm.\"", "776": "Seneca says, \"How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm.\"", "777": "Epictetus says, \"Only consider at what price you sell your own will: if for no other reason, at least for this, that you sell it not for a small sum.\"", "778": "Epictetus says, \"Avoid banquets which are given by strangers and by ignorant persons.\"", "779": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? What is outside my mind means nothing to it. Absorb that lesson and your feet stand firm.\"", "780": "Seneca says, \"How late it is to begin living only when one must stop!\"", "781": "Seneca says, \"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.\"", "782": "Seneca says, \"In every good person, there lives a god. Which god? We cannot be sure - but it is a god.\"", "783": "Seneca says, \"Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.\"", "784": "Epictetus says, \"Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer \u2026\u2019 Well, isn\u2019t it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?\"", "785": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"External things are not the problem. It\u2019s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who\u2019s stopping you from setting your mind straight?\"", "786": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?\"", "787": "Seneca says, \"Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's.\"", "788": "Seneca says, \"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man\u2019s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.\"", "789": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine.\"", "790": "Seneca says, \"When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.\"", "791": "Seneca says, \"We always feel anger longer than we feel hurt.\"", "792": "Seneca says, \"\"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via\" - \"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.\"\"", "793": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died.\"", "794": "Epictetus says, \"This is your business\u2014to act well the given part, but to choose it belongs to another.\"", "795": "Epictetus says, \"If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.\"", "796": "Seneca says, \"Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but\u2026many, following no fixed aim, shifting and\u2026 dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course.\"", "797": "Seneca says, \"Stolid pack-animals are much more fit for carrying loads than thoroughbred horses: who ever subdued their noble speed with a heavy burden?\"", "798": "Epictetus says, \"At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.\"", "799": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions\u2014not outside.\"", "800": "Seneca says, \"Let my mind be fixed on itself, cultivate itself, have no external interest \u2013 nothing that seeks the approval of another; let it cherish the tranquillity that has no part in public or private concerns.\"", "801": "Seneca says, \"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.\"", "802": "Seneca says, \"It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.\"", "803": "Epictetus says, \"We should put our trust not in the crowd, who say that only free men can be educated, but rather in the philosophers, who say that none but the educated can be free.\"", "804": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.\"", "805": "Seneca says, \"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.\"", "806": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.\"", "807": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To enter others\u2019 minds and let them enter yours.\"", "808": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not.\"", "809": "Epictetus says, \"Life is a piece of music, and you\u2019re supposed to be dancing.\"", "810": "Epictetus says, \"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.\"", "811": "Epictetus says, \"Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.\"", "812": "Seneca says, \"We do not need many words, but, rather, effective words.\"", "813": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For a man to be proud and high conceited, that he is not proud and high conceited, is of all kind of pride and presumption, the most intolerable.\"", "814": "Epictetus says, \"In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.\"", "815": "Seneca says, \"The past is ours, and there is nothing more secure for us than that which has been. We are ungrateful for past gains, because we hope for the future, as if the future \u2013 if so be that any future is ours \u2013 will not be quickly blended with the past.\"", "816": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To stand up straight \u2014 not straightened.\"", "817": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.\"", "818": "Epictetus says, \"No man can rob us of our Will\u2014no man can lord it over that!\"", "819": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Continually, and, if possible, in the case of every mental image, consider its nature, realize its emotional content, and judge it rationally.\"", "820": "Seneca says, \"That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.\"", "821": "Seneca says, \"It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.\"", "822": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If they\u2019ve made a mistake, correct them gently and show them where they went wrong. If you can\u2019t do that, then the blame lies with you. Or no one.\"", "823": "Seneca says, \"The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature.\"", "824": "Epictetus says, \"Always remember what is your own and what is not, and you\u2019ll never be troubled.\"", "825": "Seneca says, \"The best ideas are common property.\"", "826": "Seneca says, \"But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.\"", "827": "Seneca says, \"A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.\"", "828": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Bear in mind that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges, and in transition, subject to fragmentation and to rot. Or that everything was born to die.\"", "829": "Seneca says, \"Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.\"", "830": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry? It is no new thing; it is not the first, nor shall it be the last, if thou live long. At best suffer patiently, if thou canst not suffer joyously.\"", "831": "Seneca says, \"Plague on it! what madness this is, to punish one's self because one is unfortunate, and not to lessen, but to increase one's ills!\"", "832": "Seneca says, \"If a great man falls and remains great as he lies, people no more despise him than they stamp on a fallen temple, which the devout still worship as much as when it was standing.\"", "833": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And I observed that he had overcome all passion for boys.\"", "834": "Seneca says, \"Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.\"", "835": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, \"no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.\"\"", "836": "Seneca says, \"There is never a time when new distraction will not show up; we sow them, so several will grow from the same seed.\"", "837": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Love the discipline you know, and let it support you.\"", "838": "Seneca says, \"He praised his own achievements, not without cause but without end.\"", "839": "Epictetus says, \"If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?\"", "840": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect, thou dost make thy happiness to consist in the souls, and conceits of other men.\"", "841": "Seneca says, \"It is a small part of life we really live.\u2019 Indeed, all the rest is not life but merely time.\"", "842": "Seneca says, \"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.\"", "843": "Seneca says, \"For we are not summoned according to the paristi register And besides there is no man so old as to make it sinful to expect another day. Now every day is another step in life.\"", "844": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.\"", "845": "Seneca says, \"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.\"", "846": "Seneca says, \"Again, when my mind is lifted up by the greatness of its thoughts, it becomes ambitious for words and longs to match its higher inspiration with its language, and so produces a style that conforms to the impressiveness of the subject matter.\"", "847": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it? LII.\"", "848": "Seneca says, \"Life\u2019s finest day for wretched mortals here Is always first to flee.\"", "849": "Seneca says, \"There will always be causes for anxiety, whether due to prosperity or to wretchedness. Life will be driven on through a succession of preoccupations: we shall always long for leisure, but never enjoy it.\"", "850": "Seneca says, \"The sun also shines on the wicked.\"", "851": "Seneca says, \"If we do not want to be overwhelmed and struck numb by rare events as if they were unprecedented ones; fortune needs envisaging in a thoroughly comprehensive way.\"", "852": "Seneca says, \"When one is busy and absorbed in one's work, the very absorption affords great delight; but when one has withdrawn one's hand from the completed masterpiece, the pleasure is not so keen.\"", "853": "Seneca says, \"It makes no difference how important the provocation may be, but into what kind of soul it penetrates. Similarly with fire; it does not matter how great is the flame, but what it falls upon.\"", "854": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.\"", "855": "Seneca says, \"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today.\"", "856": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have grown beyond supposing such actions to be either good or bad, and therefore it will be so much the easier to be tolerant of another's blindness.\"", "857": "Epictetus says, \"If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; \"you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well.\"\"", "858": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"None of us have much time. And yet you act as if things were eternal\u2014the way you fear and long for them.\u2026 Before long, darkness. And whoever buries you mourned in their turn.\"", "859": "Seneca says, \"The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.\"", "860": "Epictetus says, \"Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.\"", "861": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not to know what the world is is to be ignorant of where you are. Not to know why it\u2019s here is to be ignorant of who you are. And what it is. Not to know any of this is to be ignorant of why you\u2019re here.\"", "862": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.\"", "863": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.\"", "864": "Seneca says, \"Thus the time we are given is not brief, but we make it so. We do not lack time; on the contrary, there is so much of it that we waste an awful lot.\"", "865": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return.\"", "866": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is high time for thee, to understand that there is somewhat in thee, better and more divine than either thy passions, or thy sensual appetites and affections.\"", "867": "Seneca says, \"You will notice that the most powerful and highly stationed men let drop remarks in which they pray for leisure, praise it, and rate it higher than all their blessings.\"", "868": "Seneca says, \"If you wish to be loved, love.\"", "869": "Seneca says, \"But every great and overpowering grief must take away the capacity to choose words, since it often stifles the voice itself.\"", "870": "Seneca says, \"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.\"", "871": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things fade and quickly turn to myth.\"", "872": "Epictetus says, \"What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.\"", "873": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good.\"", "874": "Seneca says, \"Kingdoms which act unjustly never last.\"", "875": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The best revenge is not to do as they do.\"", "876": "Seneca says, \"The first thing which philosophy undertakes to give is fellow-feeling with all men; in other words, sympathy and sociability.\"", "877": "Seneca says, \"All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselves, through our disdain for what is easy.\"", "878": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.\"", "879": "Seneca says, \"The fates lead those who will those who won't they drag.\"", "880": "Epictetus says, \"So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.\"", "881": "Seneca says, \"To know how many are jealous of you, count your admirers.\"", "882": "Epictetus says, \"That is the way things are weighed and disagreements settled \u2014 when standards are established. Philosophy aims to test and set such standards. And the wise man is advised to make use of their findings right way.\"", "883": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.\"", "884": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, \u201cI have been harmed.\u201d Take away the complaint, \u201cI have been harmed,\u201d and the harm is taken away.\"", "885": "Epictetus says, \"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.\"", "886": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"From my Great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally.\"", "887": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.\"", "888": "Seneca says, \"What Chance has made yours is not really yours.\"", "889": "Seneca says, \"It is quality rather than quantity that matters.\"", "890": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together they compose the world. One world, made up of all things. One divinity, present in them all.\"", "891": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Put from you the belief that I have been wronged and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.\"", "892": "Epictetus says, \"Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?\"", "893": "Seneca says, \"By overloading the body with food you strangle the soul and render it less active.\"", "894": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you\u2019ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, \u201cIs this necessary?\u201d\"", "895": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Honor and revere the gods, treat human beings as they deserve, be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood\u2014and nothing else is under your control.\"", "896": "Seneca says, \"Injustice never rules forever.\"", "897": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future.\"", "898": "Seneca says, \"When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, 'Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.\"", "899": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be not either a man of many words, or busy about too many things.\"", "900": "Seneca says, \"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.\"", "901": "Seneca says, \"Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is unshaken confidence... men gather together that which causes worry.\"", "902": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.\"", "903": "Epictetus says, \"Yes, but my nose is running.\u2019 Then what do you have hands for, you slave?\"", "904": "Seneca says, \"Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.\"", "905": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.\"", "906": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Why all this guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road, follow it.\"", "907": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things\u2014they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well.\"", "908": "Seneca says, \"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.\"", "909": "Epictetus says, \"I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.\"", "910": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.\"", "911": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Neither must he use himself to cut off actions only, but thoughts and imaginations also, that are unnecessary for so will unnecessary consequent actions the better be prevented and cut off.\"", "912": "Seneca says, \"Inflicted.\"", "913": "Epictetus says, \"When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad, don\u2019t blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations.\"", "914": "Seneca says, \"Does it serve any useful purpose to know that Pompey was the first to exhibit the slaughter of eighteen elephants in the Circus, pitting criminals against them in a mimic battle?\"", "915": "Seneca says, \"He will live ill who does not know how to die well.\"", "916": "Seneca says, \"There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring.\"", "917": "Seneca says, \"A family formed by crime must be broken by more crime.\"", "918": "Epictetus says, \"The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.\"", "919": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how.\"", "920": "Seneca says, \"Count your years, and you will be ashamed to desire and pursue the same things you desired in your boyhood days. .\"", "921": "Seneca says, \"A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.\"", "922": "Seneca says, \"Can you no longer see a road to freedom? It's right in front of you. You need only turn over your wrists.\"", "923": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands.\"", "924": "Epictetus says, \"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.\"", "925": "Epictetus says, \"It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.\"", "926": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.\"", "927": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how often a certain day and hour as it were, having been set unto thee by the gods, thou hast neglected it.\"", "928": "Seneca says, \"Often it is better to hide an illness from the patient, because just the mere awareness of a disease can bring about death.\"", "929": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? Always.\"", "930": "Seneca says, \"Do you ask me what you should regard as especially to be avoided? I say, crowds; for as yet you cannot trust yourself to them with safety.\"", "931": "Epictetus says, \"Can we avoid people? How is that possible? And if we associate with them, can we change them? Who gives us that power?\"", "932": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How rotten and spurious is the man who says: \u201cI have decided to be straightforward with you.\u201d\"", "933": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same seminal principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among the atoms.\"", "934": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Today I have got out of all trouble, or rather I have cast out all trouble, for it was not outside, but within and in my opinions.\"", "935": "Epictetus says, \"No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.\"", "936": "Epictetus says, \"No person is free who is not master of themselves.\"", "937": "Epictetus says, \"A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.\"", "938": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Live as though today is your last day.\"", "939": "Seneca says, \"Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts!\"", "940": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Finally, therefore, remember your retreat into this little domain which is yourself, and above all be not disturbed nor on the rack, but be free and look at things as a man, a human being, a citizen, a creature that must die.\"", "941": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.\"", "942": "Seneca says, \"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.\"", "943": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power to restrain; and should go about to suppress it in others, which is altogether impossible.\"", "944": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think often the connection of all things in the world and their mutual relations, they are arguably intertwined with each other and thus have for each other a mutual friendship, and that under the connection that leads him and the unity of matter.\"", "945": "Seneca says, \"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you\u2019ll be able to use them better when you\u2019re older.\"", "946": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.\"", "947": "Seneca says, \"But the man who is not puffed up in good times does not collapse either when they change.\"", "948": "Seneca says, \"You live as if you will live forever, no care for your mortality ever enters your head, you pay no mind to how much time has already gone by.\"", "949": "Seneca says, \"Who as though inspired with divine utterance sings salutary verses: Life.\"", "950": "Seneca says, \"Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.\"", "951": "Seneca says, \"Similarly, too rich a soil makes the grain fall flat, branches break down under too heavy a load, excessive productiveness does not bring fruit to ripeness.\"", "952": "Epictetus says, \"Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.\"", "953": "Seneca says, \"Be deaf to those who love you most of all; they pray for bad things with good intentions. .\"", "954": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.\"", "955": "Epictetus says, \"To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.\"", "956": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.\"", "957": "Seneca says, \"Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.\"", "958": "Seneca says, \"Write something therefore in a simple style, merely to pass the time, for your own use, and not for publication. Less labour is needed when one does not look beyond the present.\" Then.\"", "959": "Seneca says, \"For we must indeed have someone according to whom we may regulate our characters; you can never straighten that which is crooked unless you use a ruler.\"", "960": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.\"", "961": "Seneca says, \"Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.\"", "962": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.\"", "963": "Seneca says, \"Men are tight-fisted in keeping control of their fortunes, but when it comes to the matter of wasting time, they are positively extravagant in the one area where there is honour in being miserly.\"", "964": "Epictetus says, \"There is no shame in making an honest effort.\"", "965": "Seneca says, \"Because thou writest me often, I thank thee. Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.\"", "966": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.\"", "967": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice.\"", "968": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.\"", "969": "Epictetus says, \"Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.\"", "970": "Seneca says, \"I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.\"", "971": "Seneca says, \"No genius that ever won acclaim did so without a measure of indulgence. Name me any man you like who had a celebrated reputation, and I\u2019ll tell you what the age he lived in forgave him, what it turned a blind eye to in his work.\"", "972": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return.\"", "973": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.\"", "974": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.\"", "975": "Epictetus says, \"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.\"", "976": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to change Give me strength to change what I can And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.\"", "977": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"As they that long after figs in winter when they cannot be had; so are they that long after children, before they be granted them.\"", "978": "Seneca says, \"His last words heard on earth came after he'd let off a louder noise from his easiest channel of communication: 'Oh my! I think I've shit myself.' For all I know, he did. He certainly shat on everything else.\"", "979": "Seneca says, \"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.\"", "980": "Seneca says, \"Where, then, lies the mistake, since all men crave the happy life? It is that they regard the means for producing happiness as happiness itself, and, while seeking happiness, they are really fleeing from it.\"", "981": "Seneca says, \"In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune\u2019s habit of behaving just as she pleases.\"", "982": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.\"", "983": "Seneca says, \"On Epicurus; He says: \"Contended poverty is an honourable estate.\" Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.\"", "984": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"So other people hurt me? That\u2019s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.\"", "985": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.\"", "986": "Seneca says, \"No one willingly reverts to the past unless all his actions have passed his own censorship, which is never deceived.\"", "987": "Seneca says, \"To reduce your worry, you must assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.\"", "988": "Seneca says, \"A multitude of books only gets in one's way. So if you are unable to read all the books in your possession, you have enough when you have all the books you are able to read.\"", "989": "Seneca says, \"The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.\"", "990": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else could you wish for?\"", "991": "Epictetus says, \"Friend, lay hold with a desperate grasp, ere it is too late, on Freedom, on Tranquility, on Greatness of soul!\"", "992": "Epictetus says, \"I have learned to see that whatever comes about is nothing to me if it lies beyond the sphere of choice.\"", "993": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The way to peace is to be content with yourself, honor the light of reason within, live in harmony with others, and be grateful to the gods for the universe and your role in it.\"", "994": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body.\"", "995": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is compounded.\"", "996": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And he cares nothing for their praise\u2014men who can\u2019t even meet their own standards.\"", "997": "Seneca says, \"We learn not in the school, but in life.\"", "998": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.\"", "999": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed.\"", "1000": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?\"", "1001": "Seneca says, \"What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?\"", "1002": "Seneca says, \"It is the mind that creates our wealth, and this goes with us into exile, and in the harshest desert places it finds sufficient to nourish the body and revels in the enjoyment of its own goods.\"", "1003": "Epictetus says, \"In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is most difficult of all things.\"", "1004": "Epictetus says, \"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.\"", "1005": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.\"", "1006": "Seneca says, \"Why not stop trying to prevent posterity being silent about you? You were born to die, and a silent funeral is less bothersome.\"", "1007": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.\"", "1008": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self surrender.\"", "1009": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.\"", "1010": "Epictetus says, \"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.\"", "1011": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material?\"", "1012": "Seneca says, \"A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy.\"", "1013": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What is not good for the hive is no good for the bee.\"", "1014": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.\"", "1015": "Seneca says, \"Those who are busy with other things do not notice it until the end comes.\"", "1016": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember, however, that you are formed by nature to bear everything whose tolerability depends on your own opinion to make it so, by thinking that it is in your interest or duty to do so.\"", "1017": "Seneca says, \"You must set your hands to tasks which you can finish or at least hope to finish, and avoid those which get bigger as you proceed and do not cease where you had intended.\"", "1018": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not the \u201cnot\u201d but the \u201cnot yet.\u201d\"", "1019": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, \u2018I awake to do the work of a man.\"", "1020": "Seneca says, \"The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day.\"", "1021": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.\"", "1022": "Epictetus says, \"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.\"", "1023": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not to be overwhelmed by what you imagine, but just do what you can and should.\"", "1024": "Epictetus says, \"Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?\"", "1025": "Seneca says, \"I imagine many people could have achieved wisdom if they had not imagined they had already achieved it, if they had not dissembled about some of their own characteristics and turned a blind eye to others.\"", "1026": "Epictetus says, \"Faithfulness is the antidote to bitterness and confusion.\"", "1027": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance, revert at once to yourself, and don\u2019t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You\u2019ll have a better group of harmony if you keep on going back to it.\"", "1028": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Live every day as if they last.\"", "1029": "Seneca says, \"The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.\"", "1030": "Seneca says, \"The surest way for those who want to rule is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet.\"", "1031": "Seneca says, \"Reflect how pleasant it is to demand nothing, how noble it is to be contented and not to be dependent upon Fortune.\"", "1032": "Seneca says, \"I can show you a philtre, compounded without drugs, herbs, or any witch's incantation: 'If you want to be loved, love.\"", "1033": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The student as boxer, not fencer. The fencer\u2019s weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer\u2019s is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.\"", "1034": "Seneca says, \"\"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.\" That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.\"", "1035": "Seneca says, \"For some persons the remedy should be merely prescribed; in the case of others, it should be forced down their throats. .\"", "1036": "Seneca says, \"Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.\"", "1037": "Seneca says, \"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?\"\"", "1038": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"On every occasion a man should ask himself, Is this one of the unnecessary things?\"", "1039": "Epictetus says, \"Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.\"", "1040": "Epictetus says, \"Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.\"", "1041": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.\"", "1042": "Seneca says, \"\"Well then, shall we act like other men? Shall there be no distinction between ourselves and the world?\" Yes, a very great one; let men find that we are unlike the common herd, if they look closely.\"", "1043": "Seneca says, \"How long will this last?\u2019 This feeling has caused kings to bewail their power, and they were not so much delighted by the greatness of their fortune as terrified by the thought of its inevitable end.\"", "1044": "Seneca says, \"If you wish Pythocles to have pleasure for ever, do not add to his pleasures, but subtract from his desires.\"", "1045": "Epictetus says, \"Nothing great comes into being all at once, for that is not the case even with a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me now, \u2018I want a fig,\u2019 I\u2019ll reply, \u2018That takes time.\"", "1046": "Epictetus says, \"Remember that the divine order is intelligent and fundamentally good. Life is not a series of random, meaningless episodes, but an ordered, elegant whole that follows ultimately comprehensible laws.\"", "1047": "Seneca says, \"The body\u2019s needs are few: it wants to be free from cold, to banish hunger and thirst with nourishment; if we long for anything more we are exerting ourselves to serve our vices, not our needs.\"", "1048": "Seneca says, \"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.\"", "1049": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.\"", "1050": "Seneca says, \"One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavat).\"", "1051": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.\"", "1052": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No difference between here and there: the city that you live in is the world.\"", "1053": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.\"", "1054": "Seneca says, \"Many pursue no fixed goal, but are tossed about in ever-changing designs by a fickleness which is shifting, inconstant and never satisfied with itself.\"", "1055": "Seneca says, \"If you gain from a crime, you did it.\"", "1056": "Epictetus says, \"If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.\"", "1057": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To grieve or be angry about or fear what happens to you is to be a fugitive from the law of nature.\"", "1058": "Epictetus says, \"Every circumstance comes with two handles, which one of which you can hold it, while with the other conditions are insupportable.\"", "1059": "Epictetus says, \"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.\"", "1060": "Seneca says, \"If you want to keep a secret, never share it.\"", "1061": "Epictetus says, \"Be careful to leave your sons and daughters well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.\"\"", "1062": "Seneca says, \"Do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit.\"", "1063": "Seneca says, \"Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.\"", "1064": "Seneca says, \"Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.\"", "1065": "Seneca says, \"Ignorance is the cause of fear.\"", "1066": "Seneca says, \"We all rush through life torn between a desire for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who devotes his time to his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears for tomorrow.\"", "1067": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Soon you'll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial.\"", "1068": "Epictetus says, \"Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, \u0093He who is content.\"", "1069": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.\"", "1070": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Studying philosophy instills modesty and straightforwardness in your character.\"", "1071": "Seneca says, \"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.\"", "1072": "Seneca says, \"Wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use.\"", "1073": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"", "1074": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The things ordained for you\u2014teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you\u2014treat them with love. With real love.\"", "1075": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: \"What is his point of reference here?\" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.\"", "1076": "Seneca says, \"There is a sequence about the creative process, and a work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be subtracted without disaster.\"", "1077": "Epictetus says, \"The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.\"", "1078": "Seneca says, \"You are retained as counsel for unhappy mankind. You have promised to help those in peril by sea, those in captivity, the sick and the needy, and those whose heads are under the poised axe. Whither are you straying? What are you doing?\"", "1079": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.\"", "1080": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you.\"", "1081": "Seneca says, \"The more a mind takes in the more it expands.\"", "1082": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A ripe mature man, a perfect sound man; one that could not endure to be flattered; able to govern both himself and others.\"", "1083": "Epictetus says, \"Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?\"", "1084": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.\"", "1085": "Epictetus says, \"Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.\"", "1086": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it.\"", "1087": "Seneca says, \"N\u016bllum magnum ingenium sine mixt\u016br\u0101 d\u0113mentiae fuit No great talent without an element of madness.\"", "1088": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.\"", "1089": "Epictetus says, \"When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.\"", "1090": "Epictetus says, \"\"I'll show you that I\u2019m master.\" \u2014How will you do that? Zeus has set me free. Do you really suppose that he would allow his own son to be turned into a slave? You\u2019re master of my carcass, take that.\"", "1091": "Seneca says, \"Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.\"", "1092": "Seneca says, \"Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.\"", "1093": "Seneca says, \"It is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical.\"", "1094": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What is this, fundamentally? What is its nature and substance, its reason for being? What is it doing in the world? How long is it here for?\"", "1095": "Seneca says, \"For it is disheartening to inspire in a man the desire, and to take away from him the hope, of emulation.\"", "1096": "Seneca says, \"As to what the future's uncertain lot has in store, why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave?\"", "1097": "Seneca says, \"Read good books many times, rather than many books.\"", "1098": "Epictetus says, \"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.\"", "1099": "Seneca says, \"Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman.\"", "1100": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Wherever you go, there you are\u2014the same person, with the same patterns of thought.\"", "1101": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time\u2014even when hard at work.\"", "1102": "Seneca says, \"Think your way through difficulties: harsh conditions can be softened, restricted ones can be widened, and heavy ones can weigh less on those who know how to bear them.\"", "1103": "Seneca says, \"I wish Lucilius you had been so happy as to have taken this resolution long ago I wish we had not deferred to think of an happy life till now we are come within light of death But let us delay no longer.\"", "1104": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.\"", "1105": "Seneca says, \"Apparently, when the arrogant King of Persia beheld the vastness of his troops spread out across boundless plains, he shed copious tears when he realized that not one man amongst his prodigious army would be alive in a hundred years\u2019 time.\"", "1106": "Seneca says, \"Each day... acquire something which will help you to face poverty, or death, and other ills as well. After running over a lot of different thoughts, pick out one to be digested thoroughly that day.\"", "1107": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The universe is change, and life mere opinion.\"", "1108": "Seneca says, \"A grey-haired wrinkled man has not necessarily lived long. More accurately, he has existed long.\"", "1109": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.\"", "1110": "Seneca says, \"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.\"", "1111": "Epictetus says, \"Grammar will tell you how to write; but whether to write or not, grammar will not tell.\"", "1112": "Seneca says, \"Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.\"", "1113": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.\"", "1114": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Things?\u2014I was once a fortunate man, but I lost it, I know not how.\u2014But fortunate means that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune: and a good fortune is good disposition of the soul, good emotions, good actions.\"", "1115": "Epictetus says, \"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.\"", "1116": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in as much as it, too, demands a from and watchful stance against any unexpected onset.\"", "1117": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.\"", "1118": "Seneca says, \"When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd: it is so easy for it to go over to the majority.\"", "1119": "Epictetus says, \"For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?\"", "1120": "Seneca says, \"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.\"", "1121": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.\"", "1122": "Seneca says, \"He who is brave is free.\"", "1123": "Seneca says, \"Reading of many books is distraction.\"", "1124": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Refrain from all anger and passion.\"", "1125": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.\"", "1126": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.\"", "1127": "Epictetus says, \"If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Man be true, what remains for men to do but as Socrates did:\u2014never, when asked one's country, to answer, \"I am an Athenian or a Corinthian,\" but \"I am a citizen of the world.\"\"", "1128": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Don't live as though you were going to live a myriad years. Fate is hanging over your head; while you have life, while you may, become good.\"", "1129": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.\"", "1130": "Seneca says, \"An unpopular rule is never long maintained.\"", "1131": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.\"", "1132": "Epictetus says, \"Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.\"", "1133": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.\"", "1134": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.\"", "1135": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.\"", "1136": "Seneca says, \"The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever has said, \"I have lived\" receives a windfall every day he gets up in the morning.\"", "1137": "Seneca says, \"Think for a long time whether or not you should admit a given person to your friendship. But when you have decided to do so, welcome him heart and soul, and speak as unreservedly with him as you would with yourself.\"", "1138": "Seneca says, \"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.\"", "1139": "Seneca says, \"Weigh carefully your hopes as well as your fears, and whenever all the elements are in doubt, decide in your own favour; believe what you prefer.\"", "1140": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.\"", "1141": "Seneca says, \"Offer new prayers; pray for a sound mind and for good health, first of soul and then of body.\"", "1142": "Seneca says, \"We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.\"", "1143": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.\"", "1144": "Epictetus says, \"\"But to be hanged \u2014 is that not unendurable?\" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.\"", "1145": "Seneca says, \"It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.\"", "1146": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If some one tells you that so and so speaks ill of you, do not defend yourself against what he says, but answer, 'He did not know my other faults, or he would not have mentioned these alone.'\"", "1147": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In no great while you will be no one and nowhere, and nothing that you now behold will be in existence, nor will anyone now alive. For it is in the nature of all things to change and alter and perish, so that others may arise in their turn.\"", "1148": "Seneca says, \"All those who call you to themselves draw you away from yourself.\"", "1149": "Seneca says, \"When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, \"Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.\"\"", "1150": "Seneca says, \"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.\"", "1151": "Seneca says, \"What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?\"", "1152": "Seneca says, \"One cannot sincerely weep over getting what one wanted.\"", "1153": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Does a man offend your pride? Remember he will be dead soon, as will you.\"", "1154": "Epictetus says, \"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.\"", "1155": "Seneca says, \"Stop preventing philosophers from possessing money; no one has condemned wisdom to poverty. I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.\"", "1156": "Epictetus says, \"You\u2019re unable to make someone change his views, recognize that he is a child, and clap as he does. Or if you don\u2019t care to act in such a way, you have only to keep quiet.\"", "1157": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.\"", "1158": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.\"", "1159": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. 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.\"", "1160": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.\"", "1161": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.\"", "1162": "Seneca says, \"We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?\"", "1163": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is royal to do good and to be abused.\"", "1164": "Epictetus says, \"People find particular things, however, frightening; and it's when someone is able to threaten or entice us with those that the man himself becomes frightening.\"", "1165": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.\"", "1166": "Seneca says, \"But only philosophy will wake us; only philosophy will shake us out of that heavy sleep. Devote yourself entirely to her. You're worthy of her, she's worthy of you-fall into each other's arms. Say a firm, plain no to every other occupation.\"", "1167": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.\"", "1168": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults.\"", "1169": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.\"", "1170": "Epictetus says, \"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself.\"", "1171": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No man is happy who does not think himself so.\"", "1172": "Seneca says, \"We do not receive a life that is short, but rather we make it so; we are not beggar in it, but spendthrifts.\"", "1173": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made for, cannot possibly know either what are the qualities, or what is the nature of the world.\"", "1174": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things that have rambled and know not the way.\"", "1175": "Seneca says, \"We should often withdraw into ourselves; for mixing with persons of dissimilar natures throws into disorder our settled composure and wakens our passions anew, exacerbating whatever is weak in the mind and not properly healed.\"", "1176": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"But death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure\u2014all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil.\"", "1177": "Seneca says, \"Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.\"", "1178": "Seneca says, \"You must vie with time's swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.\"", "1179": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And why is it so hard when things go against you? If it\u2019s imposed by nature, accept it gladly and stop fighting it. And if not, work out what your own nature requires, and aim at that, even if it brings you no glory.\"", "1180": "Seneca says, \"No one keeps himself waiting; and yet the greatest cure for anger is to wait, so that the initial passion it engenders may die down, and the fog that shrouds the mind may subside, or become less thick.\"", "1181": "Seneca says, \"The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.\"", "1182": "Seneca says, \"Nero: \"Am I forbidden to do what all may do?\" Seneca: \"From high rank high example is expected.\"\"", "1183": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.\"", "1184": "Epictetus says, \"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.\"", "1185": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.\"", "1186": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.\"", "1187": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That way you'll see human life for what it is. Smoke. Nothing. Especially when you recall that once things alter they cease to exist through all the endless years to come. Then why such turmoil?\"", "1188": "Seneca says, \"All fools suffer the burden of dissatisfaction with themselves.\"", "1189": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.\"", "1190": "Seneca says, \"Plato says: \"Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave has had kings among his ancestors.\" The flight of time, with its vicissitudes, has jumbled all such things together, and Fortune has turned them upside down.\"", "1191": "Seneca says, \"But let him consider that those disorders which are so dangerous that they have gained ground in spite of treatment can generally be treated by opposite methods.\"", "1192": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble or shameful\u2014and hence neither good nor bad.\"", "1193": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful.\"", "1194": "Epictetus says, \"When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.\"", "1195": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You are but an impression, and not at all what you seem to be'.\"", "1196": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature\u2019s wisdom.\"", "1197": "Seneca says, \"\"No one,\" he says, \"leaves this world in a different manner from one who has just been born.\" That is not true; for we are worse when we die than when we were born; but it is our fault, and not that of Nature.\"", "1198": "Epictetus says, \"Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.\"", "1199": "Seneca says, \"I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion of cruelty.\"", "1200": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.\"", "1201": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?\"", "1202": "Seneca says, \"What is freedom, you ask? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it.\"", "1203": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I am unhappy, because this has happened to me.\u201d Not so: say, \u201cI am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.\u201d\"", "1204": "Epictetus says, \"If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.\"", "1205": "Seneca says, \"But learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die. So many of the finest men have put aside all.\"", "1206": "Seneca says, \"We live among wicked man through our own wickedness. One thing alone can bring us peace, an agreement to treat one another with kindness.\"", "1207": "Seneca says, \"That which takes effect by chance is not an art.\"", "1208": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The universe is flux, life is opinion.\"", "1209": "Seneca says, \"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man.\"", "1210": "Seneca says, \"As long as you live, keep learning how to live.\"", "1211": "Seneca says, \"For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.\"", "1212": "Epictetus says, \"Understand that every event is indifferent and nothing to you, of whatever sort it may be; for it will be in your power to make a right use of it, and this no one can hinder.\"", "1213": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.\"", "1214": "Epictetus says, \"\u201cI am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;\u201d \u201cI am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours.\u201d But you, after all, are neither property nor style.\"", "1215": "Epictetus says, \"Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that I've given it back.\"", "1216": "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion soon buries them. And I say this of those who have shone in a wondrous way.\"" }, "initializer_range": 0.02, "label2id": { "Cleanthes says, \" Lead me, O Zeus, and thou O Destiny, the way that I am bid by you to go: To follow I am ready. If I choose not, I make myself a wretch, and still must follow.\"": 39, "Epictetus says, \"\"But to be hanged \u2014 is that not unendurable?\" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.\"": 1144, "Epictetus says, \"\"I'll show you that I\u2019m master.\" \u2014How will you do that? Zeus has set me free. Do you really suppose that he would allow his own son to be turned into a slave? You\u2019re master of my carcass, take that.\"": 1090, "Epictetus says, \"\"Who is a friend?\" his answer was, \"A second self (alter ego).\"\"": 651, "Epictetus says, \"A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.\"": 937, "Epictetus says, \"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.\"": 1184, "Epictetus says, \"Adopt new habits yourself: consolidate your principles by putting them into practice.\"": 541, "Epictetus says, \"Always remember what is your own and what is not, and you\u2019ll never be troubled.\"": 824, "Epictetus says, \"An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.\"": 559, "Epictetus says, \"And then we\u2019ll be emulating Socrates,* once we\u2019re able to write hymns of praise in prison.\"": 33, "Epictetus says, \"And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.\"": 567, "Epictetus says, \"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.\"": 50, "Epictetus says, \"As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.\"": 579, "Epictetus says, \"As long as you honour material things, direct your anger at yourself rather than the thief or adulterer.\"": 106, "Epictetus says, \"Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, \"By setting himself to live the noblest life himself.\"\"": 755, "Epictetus says, \"Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, \"He who is content.\"\"": 630, "Epictetus says, \"Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, \u0093He who is content.\"": 1068, "Epictetus says, \"At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.\"": 798, "Epictetus says, \"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.\"": 660, "Epictetus says, \"Avoid banquets which are given by strangers and by ignorant persons.\"": 778, "Epictetus says, \"Be careful to leave your sons and daughters well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.\"\"": 1061, "Epictetus says, \"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.\"": 735, "Epictetus says, \"Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.\"": 18, "Epictetus says, \"But first consider how much more sparing and patient of hardship the poor are than we.\"": 733, "Epictetus says, \"CIRCUMSTANCES DON\u2019T MAKE THE MAN, THEY ONLY REVEAL HIM TO HIMSELF.\"": 150, "Epictetus says, \"Can we avoid people? How is that possible? And if we associate with them, can we change them? Who gives us that power?\"": 931, "Epictetus says, \"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.\"": 178, "Epictetus says, \"Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.\"": 860, "Epictetus says, \"Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.\"": 669, "Epictetus says, \"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.\"": 63, "Epictetus says, \"Conduct yourself in all matters, grand and public or small and domestic, in accordance with the laws of nature. Harmonizing your will with nature should be your utmost ideal.\"": 434, "Epictetus says, \"Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.\"": 1198, "Epictetus says, \"Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.\"": 698, "Epictetus says, \"Death is not dreadful or else it would have appeared dreadful to Socrates.\"": 113, "Epictetus says, \"Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.\"": 614, "Epictetus says, \"Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.\"": 95, "Epictetus says, \"Difficulty shows what men are.\"": 348, "Epictetus says, \"Do not get too attached to life for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.\"": 294, "Epictetus says, \"Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.\"": 1040, "Epictetus says, \"Do your best to rein in your desire. For if you desire something that isn\u2019t within your own control, disappointment will surely follow; meanwhile, you will be neglecting the very things that are within your control that are worthy of desire.\"": 246, "Epictetus says, \"Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other.\"": 164, "Epictetus says, \"Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.\"": 408, "Epictetus says, \"Don't live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.\"": 132, "Epictetus says, \"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.\"": 810, "Epictetus says, \"Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.\"": 463, "Epictetus says, \"Don\u2019t seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you\u2019ll have a calm and happy life.\"": 448, "Epictetus says, \"Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.\"": 612, "Epictetus says, \"Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.\"": 467, "Epictetus says, \"Every circumstance comes with two handles, which one of which you can hold it, while with the other conditions are insupportable.\"": 1058, "Epictetus says, \"Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.\"": 511, "Epictetus says, \"Faced with pain, you will discover the power of endurance. If you are insulted, you will discover patience. In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate.\"": 597, "Epictetus says, \"Faithfulness is the antidote to bitterness and confusion.\"": 1026, "Epictetus says, \"Finally, when he crowns it off by becoming a senator, then he becomes a slave in fine company, then he experiences the poshest and most prestigious form of enslavement.\"": 634, "Epictetus says, \"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.\"": 379, "Epictetus says, \"First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.\"": 732, "Epictetus says, \"For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!\"": 600, "Epictetus says, \"For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.\"": 626, "Epictetus says, \"For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.\"": 38, "Epictetus says, \"For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?\"": 1119, "Epictetus says, \"For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.\"": 153, "Epictetus says, \"For your part, do not desire to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free; and the only way to this is a disregard of things which lie not within our own power.\"": 73, "Epictetus says, \"Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.\"": 103, "Epictetus says, \"Free is the person who lives as he wishes and cannot be coerced, impeded or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.\"": 654, "Epictetus says, \"Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.\"": 248, "Epictetus says, \"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.\"": 1022, "Epictetus says, \"Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.\"": 1085, "Epictetus says, \"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.\"": 502, "Epictetus says, \"Friend, lay hold with a desperate grasp, ere it is too late, on Freedom, on Tranquility, on Greatness of soul!\"": 991, "Epictetus says, \"From this instant, then, choose to act like the worthy and capable person you are. Follow unwaveringly what reason tells you is the best course.\"": 111, "Epictetus says, \"Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!\"": 55, "Epictetus says, \"Goodness exists independently of our conception of it. The good is out there and it always has been out there, even before we began to exist.\"": 632, "Epictetus says, \"Grammar will tell you how to write; but whether to write or not, grammar will not tell.\"": 1111, "Epictetus says, \"Greatness of reason is measured not by height or length, but by the quality of its judgements.\"": 547, "Epictetus says, \"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.\"": 453, "Epictetus says, \"Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us show them that they have power over none.\"": 561, "Epictetus says, \"I cannot call somebody \u2018hard-working\u2019 knowing only that they read and write. Even if \u2018all night long\u2019 is added, I cannot say it \u2013 not until I know the focus of all this energy.\"": 119, "Epictetus says, \"I have learned to see that whatever comes about is nothing to me if it lies beyond the sphere of choice.\"": 992, "Epictetus says, \"I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.\"": 909, "Epictetus says, \"I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?\"": 745, "Epictetus says, \"I want to die, even though I don't have to.\"": 163, "Epictetus says, \"If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only.\"": 639, "Epictetus says, \"If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?\"": 839, "Epictetus says, \"If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on is way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?\"": 135, "Epictetus says, \"If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.\"": 82, "Epictetus says, \"If any one trusted your body to the first man he met, you would be indignant, but yet you trust your mind to the chance comer, and allow it to be disturbed and confounded if he revile you; are you not ashamed to do so?\"": 261, "Epictetus says, \"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: \u201cHe was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.\u201c\"": 245, "Epictetus says, \"If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don\u2019t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: \u201cHe does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.\u201c\"": 192, "Epictetus says, \"If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.\"": 544, "Epictetus says, \"If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; \"you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well.\"\"": 857, "Epictetus says, \"If then you desire (aim at) such great things remember that you must not (attempt to) lay hold of them with a small effort.\"": 91, "Epictetus says, \"If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.\"": 1056, "Epictetus says, \"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.\"": 751, "Epictetus says, \"If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Man be true, what remains for men to do but as Socrates did:\u2014never, when asked one's country, to answer, \"I am an Athenian or a Corinthian,\" but \"I am a citizen of the world.\"\"": 1127, "Epictetus says, \"If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.\"": 532, "Epictetus says, \"If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.\"": 795, "Epictetus says, \"If you must be affected by other people's misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt. Drop this readiness to hate and take offence.\"": 737, "Epictetus says, \"If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.\"": 353, "Epictetus says, \"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself.\"": 1170, "Epictetus says, \"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.\"": 302, "Epictetus says, \"If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.\"": 146, "Epictetus says, \"If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you\u2019ll find fault with no one, you\u2019ll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.\"": 759, "Epictetus says, \"If you wish to be a writer, write.\"": 633, "Epictetus says, \"If you wish to be a writer; write!\"": 672, "Epictetus says, \"If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.\"": 1204, "Epictetus says, \"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.\"": 307, "Epictetus says, \"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.\"": 295, "Epictetus says, \"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.\"": 1059, "Epictetus says, \"In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always.\"": 691, "Epictetus says, \"In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.\"": 814, "Epictetus says, \"In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is most difficult of all things.\"": 1003, "Epictetus says, \"In short, we do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it.\"": 388, "Epictetus says, \"In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.\"": 495, "Epictetus says, \"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.\"": 205, "Epictetus says, \"Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?\"": 255, "Epictetus says, \"Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?\"": 1083, "Epictetus says, \"Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father.\"": 638, "Epictetus says, \"It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.\"": 240, "Epictetus says, \"It is a universal law \u2014 have no illusion \u2014 that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.\"": 709, "Epictetus says, \"It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards. And often it is best for us not to pay the price, for the price might be our integrity.\"": 488, "Epictetus says, \"It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.\"": 3, "Epictetus says, \"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.\"": 1154, "Epictetus says, \"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.\"": 52, "Epictetus says, \"It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.\"": 650, "Epictetus says, \"It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.\"": 652, "Epictetus says, \"It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.\"": 925, "Epictetus says, \"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.\"": 483, "Epictetus says, \"It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.\"": 390, "Epictetus says, \"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.\"": 207, "Epictetus says, \"Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day \u2013 especially death \u2013 and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess.\"": 154, "Epictetus says, \"Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?\"": 892, "Epictetus says, \"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.\"": 175, "Epictetus says, \"Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.\"": 1039, "Epictetus says, \"Life is a piece of music, and you\u2019re supposed to be dancing.\"": 809, "Epictetus says, \"Lucky is the man who dies at work.\"": 290, "Epictetus says, \"Make it your goal never to fail in your desires or experience things you would rather avoid; try never to err in impulse and repulsion; aim to be perfect also in the practice of attention and withholding judgment.\"": 193, "Epictetus says, \"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.\"": 354, "Epictetus says, \"Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.\"": 357, "Epictetus says, \"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.\"": 571, "Epictetus says, \"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.\"": 625, "Epictetus says, \"Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.\"": 403, "Epictetus says, \"Most people are impulsive, however, and having committed to the thing, they persist, just making more confusion for themselves and others until it all end in mutual recrimination.\"": 642, "Epictetus says, \"Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.\"": 366, "Epictetus says, \"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.\"": 1010, "Epictetus says, \"Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don\u2019t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought.\"": 336, "Epictetus says, \"Never praise or blame people on common grounds; look to their judgements exclusively. Because that is the determining factor, which makes everyone's actions either good or bad.\"": 152, "Epictetus says, \"Never say about anything, I have lost it, but only I have given it back.\"": 591, "Epictetus says, \"Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that I've given it back.\"": 1215, "Epictetus says, \"Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.\"": 498, "Epictetus says, \"Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.\"": 663, "Epictetus says, \"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.\"": 429, "Epictetus says, \"No great thing is created suddenly.\"": 602, "Epictetus says, \"No man can rob us of our Will\u2014no man can lord it over that!\"": 818, "Epictetus says, \"No man is free until he is a master of himself!!\"": 326, "Epictetus says, \"No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.\"": 935, "Epictetus says, \"No person is free who is not master of themselves.\"": 936, "Epictetus says, \"Nothing great comes into being all at once, for that is not the case even with a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me now, \u2018I want a fig,\u2019 I\u2019ll reply, \u2018That takes time.\"": 1045, "Epictetus says, \"On the occasion of every accident (event) that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.\"": 100, "Epictetus says, \"On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.\"": 256, "Epictetus says, \"Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer \u2026\u2019 Well, isn\u2019t it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?\"": 784, "Epictetus says, \"Only consider at what price you sell your own will: if for no other reason, at least for this, that you sell it not for a small sum.\"": 777, "Epictetus says, \"Only the educated are free.\"": 65, "Epictetus says, \"Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.\"": 618, "Epictetus says, \"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.\"": 394, "Epictetus says, \"People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance.\"": 680, "Epictetus says, \"People find particular things, however, frightening; and it's when someone is able to threaten or entice us with those that the man himself becomes frightening.\"": 1164, "Epictetus says, \"People with a strong physical constitution can tolerate extremes of hot and cold; people of strong mental health can handle anger, grief, joy and the other emotions.\"": 330, "Epictetus says, \"Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.\"": 952, "Epictetus says, \"Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.\"": 619, "Epictetus says, \"Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.\"": 417, "Epictetus says, \"Remember from now on whenever something tends to make you unhappy, draw on this principle: 'This is no misfortune; but bearing with it bravely is a blessing.\"": 521, "Epictetus says, \"Remember that the divine order is intelligent and fundamentally good. Life is not a series of random, meaningless episodes, but an ordered, elegant whole that follows ultimately comprehensible laws.\"": 1046, "Epictetus says, \"Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.\"": 12, "Epictetus says, \"Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal \u0097 that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at the appointed season of the year.\"": 482, "Epictetus says, \"Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow.\"": 21, "Epictetus says, \"Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.\"": 969, "Epictetus says, \"Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.\"": 141, "Epictetus says, \"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.\"": 1004, "Epictetus says, \"Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.\"": 681, "Epictetus says, \"Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.\"": 1132, "Epictetus says, \"Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.\"": 191, "Epictetus says, \"So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.\"": 420, "Epictetus says, \"So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.\"": 880, "Epictetus says, \"Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us.\"": 655, "Epictetus says, \"Stop honouring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things.\"": 209, "Epictetus says, \"Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely.\"": 476, "Epictetus says, \"Taking account of the value of externals, you see, comes at some cost to the value of one's own character.\"": 749, "Epictetus says, \"Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly.\"": 96, "Epictetus says, \"That is the way things are weighed and disagreements settled \u2014 when standards are established. Philosophy aims to test and set such standards. And the wise man is advised to make use of their findings right way.\"": 882, "Epictetus says, \"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.\"": 924, "Epictetus says, \"The husbandman deals with land; physicians and trainers with the body; the wise man with his own Mind.\"": 714, "Epictetus says, \"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.\"": 692, "Epictetus says, \"The knowledge of what is mine and what is not mine, what I can and cannot do. I must die. But must I die bawling? I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?\"": 77, "Epictetus says, \"The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.\"": 1077, "Epictetus says, \"The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.\"": 918, "Epictetus says, \"The wise person knows it is fruitless to project hopes and fears on the future. This only leads to forming melodramatic representations in your mind and wasting time.\"": 347, "Epictetus says, \"There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.\"": 611, "Epictetus says, \"There is no shame in making an honest effort.\"": 964, "Epictetus says, \"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.\"": 25, "Epictetus says, \"This is your business\u2014to act well the given part, but to choose it belongs to another.\"": 794, "Epictetus says, \"Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.\"": 292, "Epictetus says, \"Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.\"": 497, "Epictetus says, \"To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.\"": 955, "Epictetus says, \"Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men.\"": 455, "Epictetus says, \"Understand that every event is indifferent and nothing to you, of whatever sort it may be; for it will be in your power to make a right use of it, and this no one can hinder.\"": 1212, "Epictetus says, \"Understand what words you use first, then use them.\"": 0, "Epictetus says, \"Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.\"": 185, "Epictetus says, \"We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.\"": 31, "Epictetus says, \"We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.\"": 406, "Epictetus says, \"We aren't filled with fear except by things that are bad; and not by them, either, as long as it is in our power to avoid them.\"": 177, "Epictetus says, \"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.\"": 885, "Epictetus says, \"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.\"": 1115, "Epictetus says, \"We should put our trust not in the crowd, who say that only free men can be educated, but rather in the philosophers, who say that none but the educated can be free.\"": 803, "Epictetus says, \"We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.\"": 454, "Epictetus says, \"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.\"": 975, "Epictetus says, \"What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. \u2018How does it come, then?\u2019 As God wills.\"": 413, "Epictetus says, \"What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.\"": 554, "Epictetus says, \"What makes for freedom and fluency in the practice of writing? Knowledge of how to write. The same goes for the practice of playing an instrument. It follows that, in the conduct of life, there must be a science to living well.\"": 538, "Epictetus says, \"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.\"": 447, "Epictetus says, \"What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard?\u2014 It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.\"": 462, "Epictetus says, \"What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.\"": 872, "Epictetus says, \"Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself. abide by them as they were laws, and as if you would be guilty of impiety by violating any of them. Don\u2019t regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.\"": 588, "Epictetus says, \"Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it. Pay no attention to whatever people might say; this no longer should influence you.\"": 355, "Epictetus says, \"When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.\"": 1089, "Epictetus says, \"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!\u2019.\"": 756, "Epictetus says, \"When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.\"": 1194, "Epictetus says, \"When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true.\"": 425, "Epictetus says, \"When things seem to have reached that stage, merely say \u201cI won\u2019t play any longer\u201d, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.\"": 80, "Epictetus says, \"When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad, don\u2019t blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations.\"": 913, "Epictetus says, \"When you find your direction, check to make sure that it is the right one.\"": 724, "Epictetus says, \"Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?\"": 1024, "Epictetus says, \"Who is your master? Whoever has authority over anything that you\u2019re anxious to gain or avoid.\"": 555, "Epictetus says, \"Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.\"": 524, "Epictetus says, \"Whoever chafes at the conditions dealt by fate is unskilled in the art of life; whoever bears with them nobly and makes wise use of the results is a man who deserves to be considered good.\"": 36, "Epictetus says, \"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.\"": 1098, "Epictetus says, \"Whoever then would be free, let him wish nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.\"": 46, "Epictetus says, \"Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.\"": 587, "Epictetus says, \"Why do you want to read anyway \u2013 for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn\u2019t make you peaceful, what good is it?\"": 438, "Epictetus says, \"Yes, but my nose is running.\u2019 Then what do you have hands for, you slave?\"": 903, "Epictetus says, \"You are a little soul carrying a dead body, as Epictetus said.\"": 349, "Epictetus says, \"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.\"": 2, "Epictetus says, \"You are the one who knows yourself - which is to say, you know how much you are worth in your own estimation, and therefore at what price you will sell yourself; because people sell themselves at different rates.\"": 744, "Epictetus says, \"You become what you give your attention to.\"": 221, "Epictetus says, \"You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.\"": 171, "Epictetus says, \"You must be one man, either good or bad. You must cultivate either your own ruling faculty or externals, and apply yourself either to things within or without you; that is, be either a philosopher, or one of the vulgar.\"": 236, "Epictetus says, \"You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.\"": 550, "Epictetus says, \"You see, then, that it is necessary for you to become a student, that creature which every one laughs at, if you really desire to make an examination of your judgements. But this, as you are quite aware, is not the work of a single hour or day.\"": 340, "Epictetus says, \"You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.\"": 308, "Epictetus says, \"You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control.\"": 549, "Epictetus says, \"You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.\"": 332, "Epictetus says, \"You're not yet Socrates, but you can still live as if you want to be him.\"": 202, "Epictetus says, \"Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.\"": 811, "Epictetus says, \"You\u2019re unable to make someone change his views, recognize that he is a child, and clap as he does. Or if you don\u2019t care to act in such a way, you have only to keep quiet.\"": 1156, "Epictetus says, \"\u201cI am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;\u201d \u201cI am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours.\u201d But you, after all, are neither property nor style.\"": 1214, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"\"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.\" That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.\"": 188, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A Man's life is dyed the color of his imagination.\"": 124, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults.\"": 1168, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.\"": 862, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You\u2019re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.\"": 384, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return.\"": 972, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.\"": 552, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.\"": 1007, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.\"": 956, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.\"": 400, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A philosopher without clothes and one without books. \u201cI have nothing to eat,\u201d says he, as he stands there half-naked, \u201cbut I subsist on the logos.\u201d And with nothing to read, I subsist on it too.\"": 721, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish that they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.\"": 659, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A ripe mature man, a perfect sound man; one that could not endure to be flattered; able to govern both himself and others.\"": 1082, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power to restrain; and should go about to suppress it in others, which is altogether impossible.\"": 943, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.\"": 878, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"": 628, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Accept the things to which life binds you, and love the people with whom life brings you together, but do so with all your heart.\"": 564, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.\"": 1121, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.\"": 528, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.\"": 323, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same seminal principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among the atoms.\"": 933, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All is ephemeral, both what remembers and what is remembered.\"": 629, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.\"": 98, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike.\"": 138, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All that comes to pass is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring, and the grape in summer. Of like fashion are sickness, death, calumny, intrigue, and all that gladdens or saddens the foolish.\"": 296, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed.\"": 282, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things fade and quickly turn to myth.\"": 871, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.\"": 319, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.\"": 24, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.\"": 363, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"All things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion soon buries them. And I say this of those who have shone in a wondrous way.\"": 1216, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And I observed that he had overcome all passion for boys.\"": 833, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And as upon thy face and looks, thy mind hath easily power over them to keep them to that which is grave and decent; so let it challenge the same power over the whole body also.\"": 631, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch, but in true grace and heartfelt gratitude to the god.\"": 682, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And he cares nothing for their praise\u2014men who can\u2019t even meet their own standards.\"": 996, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.\"": 28, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And not to think of philosophy as your instructor, but as the sponge and egg white that relieve ophthalmia\u2014as a soothing ointment, a warm lotion.\"": 69, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess.\"": 203, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things\u2014they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well.\"": 907, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And to be easy and ready to be reconciled, and well pleased again with them that had offended me, as soon as any of them would be content to seek unto me again.\"": 753, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful.\"": 1193, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"And why is it so hard when things go against you? If it\u2019s imposed by nature, accept it gladly and stop fighting it. And if not, work out what your own nature requires, and aim at that, even if it brings you no glory.\"": 1179, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.\"": 116, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.\"": 9, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?\"": 398, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: \"What is his point of reference here?\" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.\"": 1075, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.\"": 71, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"As they that long after figs in winter when they cannot be had; so are they that long after children, before they be granted them.\"": 977, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?\"": 752, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Attend to the matter before you, whether it is an opinion or an act or a word. You suffer this justly: for you choose rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today.\"": 88, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.\"": 529, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be content to seem what you really are.\"": 118, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.\"": 277, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be not either a man of many words, or busy about too many things.\"": 899, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous.\"": 375, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.\"": 771, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.\"": 1069, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Bear in mind that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges, and in transition, subject to fragmentation and to rot. Or that everything was born to die.\"": 828, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Beautiful things of any kind are beautiful in themselves and sufficient to themselves. Praise is extraneous. The object of praise remains what it was\u2014no better and no worse.\"": 574, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.\"": 726, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary\u2026.\"": 747, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you\u2019ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, \u201cIs this necessary?\u201d\"": 894, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.\"": 731, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"But by all means bear this in mind, that within a very short time both thou and he will be dead; and soon not even your names will be left behind.\"": 281, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"But death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure\u2014all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil.\"": 1176, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble or shameful\u2014and hence neither good nor bad.\"": 1192, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"But fortunate means that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune: and a good fortune is good disposition of the soul, good emotions, good actions.\"": 378, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Call to mind the whole of Substance of which you have a very small portion, and the whole of time whereof a small hair's breadth has been determined for you, and of the chain of causation whereof you are how small a link.\"": 723, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Choose not to be harmed\u2014and you won\u2019t feel harmed. Don\u2019t feel harmed\u2014and you haven\u2019t been.\"": 738, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed.\"": 656, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved.\"": 670, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: the bodies and substances themselves, into the matter and substance of the world: and their memories into the general age and time of the world.\"": 395, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power. Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner, who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.\"": 423, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Continually, and, if possible, in the case of every mental image, consider its nature, realize its emotional content, and judge it rationally.\"": 819, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body.\"": 994, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.\"": 648, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.\"": 1186, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.\"": 232, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.\"": 523, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.\"": 1131, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Dig deep; the water- goodness- is down there. And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up.\"": 89, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.\"": 513, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.\"": 761, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do every act of your life as if it were your last.\"": 47, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.\"": 419, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.\"": 412, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.\"": 594, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not be ashamed of help.\"": 543, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.\"": 70, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not let the future disturb you, for you will arrive there, if you arrive, with the same reason you now apply to the present.\"": 133, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not suppose you are hurt, and your complaint ceases; cease your complaint, and you are not hurt.\"": 569, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.\"": 565, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.\"": 962, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else could you wish for?\"": 990, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Does a man offend your pride? Remember he will be dead soon, as will you.\"": 1153, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration? Does gold, or ivory, or purple? A lyre or a dagger, a rosebud or a sapling?\"": 350, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?\"": 287, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Don't live as though you were going to live a myriad years. Fate is hanging over your head; while you have life, while you may, become good.\"": 1128, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Don\u2019t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you\u2019ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?\"": 189, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Don\u2019t look at things the way wrong-doers do. Don\u2019t look at things as wrong-doers want you too, either. Instead, strive to see things in truth, as they really are.\"": 520, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.\"": 586, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Each of us lives only now, in this brief instant. The rest of our life has been lived already, or is impossible to see because it lies in the unknowable future.\"": 715, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Enter their minds, and you'll find the judges you're so afraid of\u2014and how judiciously they judge themselves.\"": 117, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.\"": 331, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. .\"": 414, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.\"": 719, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.\"": 324, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect, thou dost make thy happiness to consist in the souls, and conceits of other men.\"": 840, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Every portion of me will be reassigned as another portion of the world, and that in turn transformed into another. Ad infinitum.\"": 162, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?\"": 108, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.\"": 1053, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together they compose the world. One world, made up of all things. One divinity, present in them all.\"": 890, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.\"": 1158, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of a stranger. The only fame after death is oblivion.\"": 230, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it\u2019s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it\u2019s unendurable \u2026 then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.\"": 404, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.\"": 968, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.\"": 707, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream.\"": 165, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option: to accept this event with humility, to treat this person as he should be treated, or to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in.\"": 159, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option: to accept this event with humility; to treat this person as he should be treated; to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in.\"": 551, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"External things are not the problem. It\u2019s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who\u2019s stopping you from setting your mind straight?\"": 785, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.\"": 215, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Fame in a world like this is worthless.\"": 49, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Finally, therefore, remember your retreat into this little domain which is yourself, and above all be not disturbed nor on the rack, but be free and look at things as a man, a human being, a citizen, a creature that must die.\"": 940, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is compounded.\"": 995, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Fire feeds on obstacles.\"": 667, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?\"": 1000, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For a man to be proud and high conceited, that he is not proud and high conceited, is of all kind of pride and presumption, the most intolerable.\"": 813, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For all things fade and turn to fable, and quickly too, utter oblivion covers them like sand.\"": 303, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.\"": 553, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.\"": 716, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For the entire earth is but a point, and the place of your own habitation but a minute corner in it. Remember then to withdraw into the little field of self. Above all, never struggle or strain; but be master of yourself.\"": 301, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.\"": 123, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small\u2014small.\"": 690, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.\"": 617, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"From my Great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally.\"": 886, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper.\"": 713, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly.\"": 542, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.\"": 338, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.\"": 598, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Give up your thirst for books so that you do not die a grouch.\"": 609, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.\"": 235, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it.\"": 649, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to change Give me strength to change what I can And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.\"": 976, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.\"": 293, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He is so rich, he has no room to shit.\"": 439, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made for, cannot possibly know either what are the qualities, or what is the nature of the world.\"": 1173, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.\"": 158, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.\"": 314, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He who eats my bread does my will.\"": 198, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.\"": 172, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which happened in the most distant past and that which will happen in the future.\"": 304, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"He who loves fame considers another man\u2019s activity to be his own good; and he who loves pleasure, his own sensations; but he who has understanding, considers his own acts to be his own good.\"": 487, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"\"": 466, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Honor and revere the gods, treat human beings as they deserve, be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood\u2014and nothing else is under your control.\"": 895, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.\"": 998, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it? LII.\"": 847, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.\"": 729, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.\"": 1189, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"": 410, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.\"": 1169, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.\"": 527, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.\"": 249, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything that happens in life.\"": 525, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.\"": 1113, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How rotten and spurious is the man who says: \u201cI have decided to be straightforward with you.\u201d\"": 932, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"How soon will time cover all things.\"": 730, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.\"": 1133, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.\"": 1079, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I am unhappy, because this has happened to me.\u201d Not so: say, \u201cI am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.\u201d\"": 1203, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? What is outside my mind means nothing to it. Absorb that lesson and your feet stand firm.\"": 779, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things that have rambled and know not the way.\"": 1174, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.\"": 575, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I have no right to do myself an injury. Have I ever injured anyone else if I could avoid it?\"": 666, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"": 1073, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I learned endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.\"": 452, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.\"": 204, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.\"": 1041, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died.\"": 793, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"IN THE morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?\"": 22, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.\"": 286, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If anyone can refute me\u2014show me I\u2019m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective\u2014I\u2019ll gladly change. It\u2019s the truth I\u2019m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.\"": 468, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I think the truth , which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence and self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.\"": 457, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If our intellectual part is common, the reason also, in respect of which we are rational beings, is common: if this is so, common also is the reason which commands us what to do, and what not to do.\"": 695, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If some one tells you that so and so speaks ill of you, do not defend yourself against what he says, but answer, 'He did not know my other faults, or he would not have mentioned these alone.'\"": 1146, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If they\u2019ve made a mistake, correct them gently and show them where they went wrong. If you can\u2019t do that, then the blame lies with you. Or no one.\"": 822, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, \u2018I awake to do the work of a man.\"": 1019, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not one to the thing but to your own estimate to it.\"": 122, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.\"": 491, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If you suffer distress because of some external cause, it is not the thing itself that troubles you but your judgement about it, and it is within your power to cancel that judgement at any moment.\"": 218, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"If you\u2019re honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.\"": 493, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you.\"": 503, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them.\"": 1, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.\"": 472, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this.\"": 772, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In no great while you will be no one and nowhere, and nothing that you now behold will be in existence, nor will anyone now alive. For it is in the nature of all things to change and alter and perish, so that others may arise in their turn.\"": 1147, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?\"": 786, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? Always.\"": 929, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.\"": 1005, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?\"": 1201, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?\"": 416, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you\u2014inside or out.\"": 705, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.\"": 274, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.\"": 1014, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is high time for thee, to understand that there is somewhat in thee, better and more divine than either thy passions, or thy sensual appetites and affections.\"": 866, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.\"": 982, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.\"": 985, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.\"": 501, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.\"": 674, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.\"": 199, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is only this present, a moment of time, that a man lives: all the rest either has been lived or may never be.\"": 359, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is ridiculous not to escape from one\u2019s own vices, which is possible, while trying to escape the vices of others, which is impossible.\"": 250, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It is royal to do good and to be abused.\"": 1163, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It loved to happen.\"": 263, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.\"": 1157, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.\"": 902, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.\"": 844, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.\"": 686, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue at the races, or Light or Heavy in the ring.\"": 87, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Its a dream, a fearful dream, life is.\"": 16, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"It\u2019s silly to try to escape other people\u2019s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.\"": 480, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Let it happen, if it wants, to whatever it can happen to. And what\u2019s affected can complain about it if it wants. It doesn\u2019t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.\"": 358, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Let not the future trouble you; for you will come to it, if come you must, bearing with you the same reason which you are using now to meet the present.\"": 329, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Let the god that is within you be the champion of the being you are.\"": 440, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.\"": 750, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.\"": 90, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Life is opinion.\"": 742, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Life is short. That\u2019s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present\u2014thoughtfully, justly. Unrestrained moderation.\"": 10, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Live as though today is your last day.\"": 938, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Live every day as if they last.\"": 1028, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look at the past\u2014empire succeeding empire\u2014and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events. Which is why observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand. Would you really see anything new?\"": 260, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.\"": 926, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.\"": 762, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.\"": 161, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.\"": 166, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? In.\"": 92, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Love the discipline you know, and let it support you.\"": 837, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.\"": 743, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Manage all your actions, words, and thoughts accordingly, since you may at any moment quit life.\"": 83, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.\"": 35, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"My city and my country, as I am Antoninus, is Rome; as I am a man, it is the world.\"": 356, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?\"": 700, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Neither must he use himself to cut off actions only, but thoughts and imaginations also, that are unnecessary for so will unnecessary consequent actions the better be prevented and cut off.\"": 911, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.\"": 156, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.\"": 1088, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.\"": 883, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.\"": 460, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present...\"": 428, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.\"": 954, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands.\"": 923, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains.\"": 149, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No difference between here and there: the city that you live in is the world.\"": 1052, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No man is happy who does not think himself so.\"": 1171, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, \"no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.\"\"": 835, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!\"": 121, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.\"": 139, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"None of us have much time. And yet you act as if things were eternal\u2014the way you fear and long for them.\u2026 Before long, darkness. And whoever buries you mourned in their turn.\"": 858, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not the \u201cnot\u201d but the \u201cnot yet.\u201d\"": 1018, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not to assume it\u2019s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it\u2019s humanly possible, you can do it too.\"": 342, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not to be overwhelmed by what you imagine, but just do what you can and should.\"": 1023, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not to know what the world is is to be ignorant of where you are. Not to know why it\u2019s here is to be ignorant of who you are. And what it is. Not to know any of this is to be ignorant of why you\u2019re here.\"": 861, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.\"": 377, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.\"": 1185, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.\"": 131, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we\u2019re practically showered with them.\"": 126, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.\"": 854, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nothing that goes on in anyone else\u2019s mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you. \u2014Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it.\"": 500, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.\"": 556, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance\u2014now, at this very moment\u2014of all external events. That\u2019s all you need.\"": 244, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.\"": 768, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.\"": 383, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"On every occasion a man should ask himself, Is this one of the unnecessary things?\"": 1038, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to. 4.\"": 7, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.\"": 1049, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.\"": 1126, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out.\"": 74, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time\u2014even when hard at work.\"": 1101, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.\"": 1125, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.\"": 451, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice.\"": 967, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Practice even what seems impossible.\"": 5, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell.\"": 224, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Pride is a master of deception: when you think you\u2019re occupied in the weightiest business, that\u2019s when he has you in his spell.\"": 418, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.\"": 273, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Put from you the belief that I have been wronged and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.\"": 891, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Receive without conceit, release without struggle.\"": 622, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Refrain from all anger and passion.\"": 1124, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.\"": 941, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.\"": 572, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how often a certain day and hour as it were, having been set unto thee by the gods, thou hast neglected it.\"": 927, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how.\"": 919, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.\"": 1129, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren\u2019t aiming to do the impossible. \u2014Aiming to do what, then? To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.\"": 774, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.\"": 887, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember, however, that you are formed by nature to bear everything whose tolerability depends on your own opinion to make it so, by thinking that it is in your interest or duty to do so.\"": 1016, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.\"": 960, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.\"": 1140, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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?\"\"": 4, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature\u2019s wisdom.\"": 1196, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Similarly, man is born for deeds of kindness; and when he has done a kindly action, or otherwise served the common welfare, he has done what he was made for, and has received his quittance.\"": 389, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.\"": 213, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"So here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, \u2018This is a misfortune,\u2019 but \u2018To bear this worthily is good fortune.\"": 427, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"So other people hurt me? That\u2019s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.\"": 671, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"So other people hurt me? That\u2019s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.\"": 984, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it.\"": 767, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Soon you'll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial.\"": 1067, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.\"": 974, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.\"": 262, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.\"": 736, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Stop whatever you\u2019re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won\u2019t be able to do this anymore?\"": 717, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Strength and honor.\"": 48, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Studying philosophy instills modesty and straightforwardness in your character.\"": 1070, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.\"": 817, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.\"": 257, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Such as you are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for your soul is dyed through the thoughts.\"": 97, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.\"": 53, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, \u201cI have been harmed.\u201d Take away the complaint, \u201cI have been harmed,\u201d and the harm is taken away.\"": 884, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.\"": 966, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned\u2014to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.\"": 548, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That I have such a wife, so obedient.\"": 431, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That all is as thinking makes it so \u2013 and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay.\"": 275, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That there is but a certain limit of time appointed unto thee, which if thou shalt not make use of to calm and allay the many distempers of thy soul, it will pass away and thou with it, and never after return.\"": 704, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant.\"": 676, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That way you'll see human life for what it is. Smoke. Nothing. Especially when you recall that once things alter they cease to exist through all the endless years to come. Then why such turmoil?\"": 1187, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it with. And that I was never put in that position myself\u2014of having to take something from someone else.\"": 662, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not.\"": 808, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.\"": 1160, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.\"": 251, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"That you don\u2019t know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people\u2019s actions with real understanding.\"": 449, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The Stoics had always approved of participation in public life, and this stand struck a chord with the Roman aristocracy, whose code of values placed a premium on political and military activity.\"": 114, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in as much as it, too, demands a from and watchful stance against any unexpected onset.\"": 1116, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.\"": 530, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The best kind of revenge is not to become like them.\"": 432, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The best revenge is not to do as they do.\"": 875, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.\"": 104, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.\"": 1117, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.\"": 615, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The earth, saith the poet, doth often long after the rain. So is the glorious sky often as desirous to fall upon the earth, which argues a mutual kind of love between them.\"": 437, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The existence of evil does not harm the world. And an individual act of evil does not harm the victim. Only one person is harmed by it\u2014and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to.\"": 485, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The fencer\u2019s weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer\u2019s is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.\"": 369, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"": 247, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.\"": 613, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.\"": 496, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"": 267, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.\"": 734, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature.\"": 539, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.\"": 484, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.\"": 174, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.\"": 1161, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience.\"": 595, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.\"": 339, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.\"": 1200, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The other is that all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed. The universe is transformation: life is opinion.\"": 711, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The pomps and glories which he despised were all his; what to most men is an ambition or a dream, to him was a round of weary tasks which nothing but the stern sense of duty could carry him through. And he did his work well.\"": 725, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.\"": 422, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.\"": 636, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The ruler must be a philosopher as well as a king; and he must govern unwillingly, because he loves philosophy better than dominion.\"": 190, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.\"": 684, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.\"": 566, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The soul becomes dyed with the colours of its thoughts.\"": 288, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The student as boxer, not fencer. The fencer\u2019s weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer\u2019s is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.\"": 1033, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The things ordained for you\u2014teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you\u2014treat them with love. With real love.\"": 1074, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.\"": 387, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.\"": 280, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.\"": 1213, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The tranquillity that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. (Is this fair? Is this the right thing to do?) . . . not to be distracted by their darkness. To run straight for the finish line, unswerving.\"": 130, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The universe is change, and life mere opinion.\"": 1107, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.\"": 720, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The universe is flux, life is opinion.\"": 1208, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed.\"": 999, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You\u2019re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.\"": 360, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The way to peace is to be content with yourself, honor the light of reason within, live in harmony with others, and be grateful to the gods for the universe and your role in it.\"": 993, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The whole Universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it.\"": 583, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it.\"": 1086, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Then consider the Middle (and later the New) Comedy and what it aimed at\u2014gradually degenerating into mere realism and empty technique.\"": 696, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"There is a kind of river of things passing into being and Time is a violent torrent. For no sooner is each seen, than it has been carried away, and another is being carried by, and that, too, will be carried away.\"": 362, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.\"": 1109, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"There\u2019s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.\"": 494, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"They contemn one another, and yet they seek to please one another: and whilest they seek to surpass one another in worldly pomp and greatness, they most debase and prostitute themselves in their better part one to another.\"": 86, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself.\"": 254, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Things: and the vanity of praise, and the inconstancy.\"": 616, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Things?\u2014I was once a fortunate man, but I lost it, I know not how.\u2014But fortunate means that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune: and a good fortune is good disposition of the soul, good emotions, good actions.\"": 1114, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.\"": 610, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think of the countless changes in which you yourself have bad a part. The whole universe is change, and life is but what you deem it.\"": 37, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.\"": 78, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what\u2019s left and live it properly.\"": 211, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.\"": 1143, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Think often the connection of all things in the world and their mutual relations, they are arguably intertwined with each other and thus have for each other a mutual friendship, and that under the connection that leads him and the unity of matter.\"": 944, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"This then remains: Remember to retire into this little territory of thy own, and, above all, do not distract or strain thyself, but be free, at look and things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal.\"": 346, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material?\"": 1011, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"This world is mere change, and this life, opinion.\"": 168, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future.\"": 897, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.\"": 910, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.\"": 1165, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.\"": 26, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone.\"": 64, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return.\"": 865, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.\"": 1167, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.\"": 1051, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a little mucus tomorrow will be a mummy or ashes.\"": 169, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To enter others\u2019 minds and let them enter yours.\"": 807, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To grieve or be angry about or fear what happens to you is to be a fugitive from the law of nature.\"": 1057, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called, i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.\"": 621, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.\"": 1009, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To pass through this brief life as nature demands. To give it up without complaint. Like an olive that ripens and falls. Praising its mother, thanking the tree it grew on.\"": 368, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so.\"": 62, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of.\"": 101, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To recover your life is within your power; simply view things again as once you viewed them, for your revival rests in that.\"": 376, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.\"": 1183, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapour, and life is a warfare and a stranger\u2019s sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.\"": 180, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To stand up straight \u2014 not straightened.\"": 816, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good.\"": 873, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"To the world: Your harmony is mine. Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.\"": 739, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.\"": 1134, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions\u2014not outside.\"": 799, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Today I have got out of all trouble, or rather I have cast out all trouble, for it was not outside, but within and in my opinions.\"": 934, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Try how the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who is satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his own just acts and benevolent disposition.\"": 510, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"": 283, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Use thyself even unto those things that thou doest at first despair of. For the left hand we see, which for the most part hieth idle because not used; yet doth it hold the bridle with more strength than the right, because it hath been used unto it.\"": 582, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.\"": 269, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Vex not thy spirit at the course of things,they not heed thy vexations.\"": 407, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Wait for it patiently\u2014annihilation or metamorphosis.\"": 519, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.\"": 450, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Waste no more time arguing that a good man should be. Be one.\"": 516, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"We are all mere nuggets of incense on the one altar. Some burn down now , some later - there is no difference .\"": 763, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"We are the other of the other.\"": 128, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.\"": 214, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.\"": 45, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What am I doing with my soul? Interrogate yourself, to find out what inhabits your so-called mind and what kind of soul you have now. A child\u2019s soul, an adolescent\u2019s, a woman\u2019s? A tyrant\u2019s soul? The soul of a predator\u2014or its prey?\"": 30, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What else did you expect from helping someone out? Isn\u2019t it enough that you\u2019ve done what your nature demands? You want a salary for it too? As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That\u2019s what they were made for.\"": 129, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What is not good for the hive is no good for the bee.\"": 1013, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What is this, fundamentally? What is its nature and substance, its reason for being? What is it doing in the world? How long is it here for?\"": 1094, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.\"": 1135, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.\"": 397, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: \"Whatever anyone does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.\"\"": 478, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.\"": 6, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever happens to every man, this is for the interest of the universal.\"": 268, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you.\"": 1080, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever happens, happens rightly. Watch closely, and you will find this true. In the succession of events there is not mere sequence alone, but an order that is just right, as from the hand of one who dispense to their due.\"": 370, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.\"": 506, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever may happen to you, it was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being, and of that which is incident to it.\"": 435, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.\"": 946, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.\"": 973, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When it allows its action and impulse to be without a purpose, to be random and disconnected: even the smallest things ought to be directed toward a goal.\"": 746, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance, revert at once to yourself, and don\u2019t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You\u2019ll have a better group of harmony if you keep on going back to it.\"": 1027, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs.\"": 533, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When the object perishes, the pneuma that animated it is reabsorbed into the logos as a whole. This process of destruction and reintegration happens to individual objects at every moment.\"": 430, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.\"": 144, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you are offended at any man\u2019s fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred.\"": 313, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.\"": 905, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...\"": 601, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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.\"": 637, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.\"": 1021, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?\"": 94, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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\u2019t tell good from evil.\"": 445, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"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?\"": 219, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Where a man can live, there he can also live well. But he must live in a palace;- well then, he can also live well in a palace.\"": 392, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine.\"": 789, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Wherever you go, there you are\u2014the same person, with the same patterns of thought.\"": 1100, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Why all this guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road, follow it.\"": 906, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry? It is no new thing; it is not the first, nor shall it be the last, if thou live long. At best suffer patiently, if thou canst not suffer joyously.\"": 830, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.\"": 1084, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?\"": 589, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.\"": 393, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self surrender.\"": 1008, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Yes, keep on degrading yourself, soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.\"": 444, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Yes, you can\u2014if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.\"": 646, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.\"": 804, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You are but an impression, and not at all what you seem to be'.\"": 1195, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You can live here as you expect to live there.\"": 562, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.\"": 352, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have a mind? \u2014Yes. Well, why not use it? Isn\u2019t that all you want\u2014for it to do its job?\"": 170, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have grown beyond supposing such actions to be either good or bad, and therefore it will be so much the easier to be tolerant of another's blindness.\"": 856, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have no assurance that they are doing wrong at all, for the motives of man's actions are not always what they seem. There is generally much to learn before any judgement can be pronounced with certainty on another's doings.\"": 243, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. 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.\"": 1159, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.\"": 806, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You should always look on human life as short and cheap. Yesterday sperm: tomorrow a mummy or ashes.\"": 93, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your character is simply the sum of your thoughts over time.\"": 701, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.\"": 312, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your life is what your thoughts make it.\"": 44, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.\"": 1104, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.\"": 863, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"Your principles have life in them. For how can they perish, unless the ideas that correspond to them are extinguished? And it is up to you to be constantly fanning them into new flame.\"": 489, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"You\u2019ve given aid and they\u2019ve received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?\"": 75, "Marcus Aurelius says, \"\u200eBegin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.\"": 728, "Seneca says, \"\"No one,\" he says, \"leaves this world in a different manner from one who has just been born.\" That is not true; for we are worse when we die than when we were born; but it is our fault, and not that of Nature.\"": 1197, "Seneca says, \"\"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via\" - \"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.\"\"": 792, "Seneca says, \"\"Well then, shall we act like other men? Shall there be no distinction between ourselves and the world?\" Yes, a very great one; let men find that we are unlike the common herd, if they look closely.\"": 1042, "Seneca says, \"\"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.\" That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.\"": 1034, "Seneca says, \"'It is unbearable to be deprived of your country.' Come now, look at this mass of people whom the buildings of huge Rome can scarcely hold: most of that crowd are deprived of their country.\"": 722, "Seneca says, \"A family formed by crime must be broken by more crime.\"": 917, "Seneca says, \"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.\"": 253, "Seneca says, \"A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy.\"": 1012, "Seneca says, \"A great mind becomes a great fortune.\"": 770, "Seneca says, \"A grey-haired wrinkled man has not necessarily lived long. More accurately, he has existed long.\"": 1108, "Seneca says, \"A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.\"": 827, "Seneca says, \"A man who makes a decision without listening to both sides is unjust, even if his ruling is a fair one.\"": 477, "Seneca says, \"A multitude of books only gets in one's way. So if you are unable to read all the books in your possession, you have enough when you have all the books you are able to read.\"": 988, "Seneca says, \"A person teaching and a person learning,' he said, 'should have the same end in view: the improvement of the latter.\"": 475, "Seneca says, \"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.\"": 231, "Seneca says, \"A pleasure that is ephemeral brings no true satisfaction to any man. How miserable must be the lives of those folk who labor so hard for something that once gained they must work even harder to keep.\"": 766, "Seneca says, \"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.\"": 754, "Seneca says, \"A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.\"": 921, "Seneca says, \"Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.)-A Wrinkle in Time.\"": 748, "Seneca says, \"Above all, my dear Lucilius, make this your business: learn how to feel joy.\"": 120, "Seneca says, \"Again, when my mind is lifted up by the greatness of its thoughts, it becomes ambitious for words and longs to match its higher inspiration with its language, and so produces a style that conforms to the impressiveness of the subject matter.\"": 846, "Seneca says, \"All fools suffer the burden of dissatisfaction with themselves.\"": 1188, "Seneca says, \"All life is a servitude. So you have to get used to your circumstances, complain about them as little as possible, and grasp whatever advantage they have to offer: no condition is so bitter that a stable mind cannot find some consolation in it.\"": 327, "Seneca says, \"All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.\"": 84, "Seneca says, \"All that remains of our existence is not actually life but merely time.\"": 237, "Seneca says, \"All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselves, through our disdain for what is easy.\"": 877, "Seneca says, \"All this hurrying from place to place won\u2019t bring you any relief, for you\u2019re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.\"": 85, "Seneca says, \"All those who call you to themselves draw you away from yourself.\"": 1148, "Seneca says, \"Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is unshaken confidence... men gather together that which causes worry.\"": 901, "Seneca says, \"Am I not to inquire into the identity of the artist of this universe?\"": 535, "Seneca says, \"An unpopular rule is never long maintained.\"": 1130, "Seneca says, \"And what is more wretched than a man who forgets his benefits and clings to his injuries?\"": 81, "Seneca says, \"And what\u2019s so bad about your being deprived of that? All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft through a life of luxury, ailing more in the mind than they ever are in the body.\"": 298, "Seneca says, \"Anger will abate and become more controlled when it knows it must come before a judge each day.\"": 115, "Seneca says, \"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.\"": 845, "Seneca says, \"Anyone who likes may make things easier for himself by viewing them with equanimity.\"": 481, "Seneca says, \"Apparently, when the arrogant King of Persia beheld the vastness of his troops spread out across boundless plains, he shed copious tears when he realized that not one man amongst his prodigious army would be alive in a hundred years\u2019 time.\"": 1105, "Seneca says, \"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.\"": 647, "Seneca says, \"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.\"": 604, "Seneca says, \"As long as you live, keep learning how to live.\"": 1210, "Seneca says, \"As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.\"": 316, "Seneca says, \"As to what the future's uncertain lot has in store, why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave?\"": 1096, "Seneca says, \"Ask about those whose names are learned by heart, and you will see that they have these distinguishing marks: X cultivates Y and Y cultivates Z \u2013 no one bothers about himself.\"": 289, "Seneca says, \"Ask nature: she will tell you that she made both day and night.\"": 143, "Seneca says, \"Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.\"": 1092, "Seneca says, \"Be deaf to those who love you most of all; they pray for bad things with good intentions. .\"": 953, "Seneca says, \"Because thou writest me often, I thank thee. Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.\"": 965, "Seneca says, \"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.\"": 266, "Seneca says, \"Being without your country is not misery: you have thoroughly taught yourself by your studies to know that to a wise man every place is his country.\"": 592, "Seneca says, \"Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk.\"": 105, "Seneca says, \"Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.\"": 217, "Seneca says, \"Beyond all things is the sea.\"": 658, "Seneca says, \"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.\"": 781, "Seneca says, \"But consider whether you may not get more help from the customary method than from that which is now commonly called a \"breviary,\" though in the good old days, when real Latin was spoken, it was called a \"summary\".\"": 415, "Seneca says, \"But every great and overpowering grief must take away the capacity to choose words, since it often stifles the voice itself.\"": 869, "Seneca says, \"But he must have richly dyed purple clothes, woven with gold thread and decorated with multicoloured patterns: it is his fault, not nature\u2019s, if he feels poor.\"": 99, "Seneca says, \"But learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die. So many of the finest men have put aside all.\"": 1205, "Seneca says, \"But let him consider that those disorders which are so dangerous that they have gained ground in spite of treatment can generally be treated by opposite methods.\"": 1191, "Seneca says, \"But only philosophy will wake us; only philosophy will shake us out of that heavy sleep. Devote yourself entirely to her. You're worthy of her, she's worthy of you-fall into each other's arms. Say a firm, plain no to every other occupation.\"": 1166, "Seneca says, \"But our friend Bassus stays sharp minded. Philosophy furnishes him with this: to be cheerful when death comes in view, to stay strong and happy no matter what one\u2019s bodily condition.\"": 344, "Seneca says, \"But the man who is not puffed up in good times does not collapse either when they change.\"": 947, "Seneca says, \"But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.\"": 826, "Seneca says, \"But you never deign to look at yourself or listen to yourself. So you have no reason to claim credit from anyone for those attentions, since you showed them not because you wanted someone else\u2019s company but because you could not bearyour own.\"": 512, "Seneca says, \"By overloading the body with food you strangle the soul and render it less active.\"": 893, "Seneca says, \"Can you no longer see a road to freedom? It's right in front of you. You need only turn over your wrists.\"": 922, "Seneca says, \"Certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.\"": 79, "Seneca says, \"Consider, too, that a man lifting his head from the very funeral pyre must need some novel vocabulary not drawn from ordinary everyday condolence to comfort his own dear ones.\"": 222, "Seneca says, \"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.\"": 179, "Seneca says, \"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.\"": 805, "Seneca says, \"Count your years, and you will be ashamed to desire and pursue the same things you desired in your boyhood days. .\"": 920, "Seneca says, \"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.\"": 688, "Seneca says, \"Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it.\"": 470, "Seneca says, \"Different reasons roused different peoples to leave their homes; but this at least is clear, nothing has stayed where it was born. The human race is always on the move.\"": 68, "Seneca says, \"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.\"": 801, "Seneca says, \"Disasters, therefore, and losses, and wrongs, have only the same power over virtue that a cloud has over the sun.\"": 578, "Seneca says, \"Distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction).\"": 456, "Seneca says, \"Do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit.\"": 1062, "Seneca says, \"Do the one thing that can render you really happy: cast aside and trample under foot all the things that glitter outwardly and are held out to you a by another or as obtainable from another.\"": 345, "Seneca says, \"Do you ask me what you should regard as especially to be avoided? I say, crowds; for as yet you cannot trust yourself to them with safety.\"": 930, "Seneca says, \"Do you ask what is the foundation of a sound mind? It is, not to find joy in useless things. .\"": 109, "Seneca says, \"Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.\"": 333, "Seneca says, \"Does it serve any useful purpose to know that Pompey was the first to exhibit the slaughter of eighteen elephants in the Circus, pitting criminals against them in a mimic battle?\"": 914, "Seneca says, \"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.\"": 870, "Seneca says, \"Each day... acquire something which will help you to face poverty, or death, and other ills as well. After running over a lot of different thoughts, pick out one to be digested thoroughly that day.\"": 1106, "Seneca says, \"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.\"": 540, "Seneca says, \"Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.\"": 961, "Seneca says, \"Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts.\"": 514, "Seneca says, \"Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at.\"": 373, "Seneca says, \"Every man, when he first sees light, is commanded to be content with milk and rags. Such is our beginning, and yet kingdoms are all too small for us!\"": 242, "Seneca says, \"Every new beginning comes from other beginning\u2019s end.\"": 297, "Seneca says, \"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.\"": 206, "Seneca says, \"Every pleasure is most valued when it is coming to an end.\"": 264, "Seneca says, \"Every pleasure is most valued when it is coming to an end?\"": 351, "Seneca says, \"Everyone goes out of life just as if he had but lately entered.\"": 270, "Seneca says, \"Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.\"": 764, "Seneca says, \"Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present.\"": 265, "Seneca says, \"Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.\"": 458, "Seneca says, \"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.\"": 59, "Seneca says, \"F you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.\"": 229, "Seneca says, \"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.\"": 1150, "Seneca says, \"Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.\"": 515, "Seneca says, \"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.\"": 58, "Seneca says, \"Fire tests gold and adversity tests the brave.\"": 276, "Seneca says, \"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.\"": 908, "Seneca says, \"For a person who is not aware that he is doing anything wrong has no desire to be put right. You have to catch yourself doing it before you can reform.\"": 187, "Seneca says, \"For it is disheartening to inspire in a man the desire, and to take away from him the hope, of emulation.\"": 1095, "Seneca says, \"For some persons the remedy should be merely prescribed; in the case of others, it should be forced down their throats. .\"": 1035, "Seneca says, \"For that love is greater which wins less through equal danger.\"": 67, "Seneca says, \"For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.\"": 1211, "Seneca says, \"For we are not summoned according to the paristi register And besides there is no man so old as to make it sinful to expect another day. Now every day is another step in life.\"": 843, "Seneca says, \"For we must indeed have someone according to whom we may regulate our characters; you can never straighten that which is crooked unless you use a ruler.\"": 959, "Seneca says, \"Fortune attacks us as often as we attack Fortune. It.\"": 769, "Seneca says, \"Fortune recently took away her mother, but your love will mean that she will only grieve over her mother\u2019s loss but not suffer for it.\"": 758, "Seneca says, \"From this state also will he flee. If I should attempt to enumerate them one by one, I should not find a single one which could tolerate the wise man or which the wise man could tolerate.\"": 757, "Seneca says, \"Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman.\"": 1099, "Seneca says, \"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you\u2019ll be able to use them better when you\u2019re older.\"": 945, "Seneca says, \"Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts!\"": 939, "Seneca says, \"Harmony makes small things grow; lack of harmony makes great things decay.\"": 741, "Seneca says, \"He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.\"": 522, "Seneca says, \"He praised his own achievements, not without cause but without end.\"": 838, "Seneca says, \"He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.\"": 8, "Seneca says, \"He who is brave is free.\"": 1122, "Seneca says, \"He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.\"": 545, "Seneca says, \"He will live ill who does not know how to die well.\"": 915, "Seneca says, \"Hence the dictum of the greatest of doctors:\u2020 \u2018Life is short, art is long.\"": 573, "Seneca says, \"His last words heard on earth came after he'd let off a louder noise from his easiest channel of communication: 'Oh my! I think I've shit myself.' For all I know, he did. He certainly shat on everything else.\"": 978, "Seneca says, \"Hold fast, then, to this sound and wholesome rule of life - that you indulge the body only so far as is needful for good health. The body should be treated more rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind.\"": 66, "Seneca says, \"Honours, monuments, whatever the ambitious have ordered by decrees or raised in public buildings are soon destroyed: there is nothing that the passage of time does not demolish and remove.\"": 593, "Seneca says, \"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you? You are saddled with the very thing that drove you away.\"": 325, "Seneca says, \"How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm.\"": 776, "Seneca says, \"How late it is to begin living only when one must stop!\"": 780, "Seneca says, \"How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!\"": 486, "Seneca says, \"How long will this last?\u2019 This feeling has caused kings to bewail their power, and they were not so much delighted by the greatness of their fortune as terrified by the thought of its inevitable end.\"": 1043, "Seneca says, \"How much better it is that you defeat anger than that it defeats itself!\"": 315, "Seneca says, \"How much better to follow a straight course and attain a goal where the words \"pleasant\" and \"honourable\" have the same meaning!\"": 401, "Seneca says, \"How much happier is the man who owes nothing to anybody except the one he can most easily refuse, himself!\"": 328, "Seneca says, \"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.\"": 581, "Seneca says, \"Hurry up and live.\"": 27, "Seneca says, \"I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion of cruelty.\"": 1199, "Seneca says, \"I am not a \u2018wise man,\u2019 nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.\"": 157, "Seneca says, \"I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital. Listen to me, therefore, as you would if I were talking to myself. .\"": 148, "Seneca says, \"I can show you a philtre, compounded without drugs, herbs, or any witch's incantation: 'If you want to be loved, love.\"": 1032, "Seneca says, \"I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.\"": 176, "Seneca says, \"I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.\"": 970, "Seneca says, \"I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know, they do not approve, and what they approve, I do not know.\"": 181, "Seneca says, \"I imagine many people could have achieved wisdom if they had not imagined they had already achieved it, if they had not dissembled about some of their own characteristics and turned a blind eye to others.\"": 1025, "Seneca says, \"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.\"": 760, "Seneca says, \"I never spend a day in idleness; I appropriate even a part of the night for study. I do not allow time for sleep but yield to it when I must, and when my eyes are wearied with waking and ready to fall shut, I keep them at their task.\"": 687, "Seneca says, \"I realize that these mental agitations of mine are not dangerous and won\u2019t produce a storm. To express my complaint for you in a realistic metaphor, I am harried not by a tempest but by sea-sickness.\"": 210, "Seneca says, \"I shall expose and reopen all the wounds which have already healed.\"": 271, "Seneca says, \"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.\"": 226, "Seneca says, \"I will storm the gods, and shake the universe.\"": 335, "Seneca says, \"I wish Lucilius you had been so happy as to have taken this resolution long ago I wish we had not deferred to think of an happy life till now we are come within light of death But let us delay no longer.\"": 1103, "Seneca says, \"If a great man falls and remains great as he lies, people no more despise him than they stamp on a fallen temple, which the devout still worship as much as when it was standing.\"": 832, "Seneca says, \"If i had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born.\"": 641, "Seneca says, \"If we do not want to be overwhelmed and struck numb by rare events as if they were unprecedented ones; fortune needs envisaging in a thoroughly comprehensive way.\"": 851, "Seneca says, \"If wisdom were offered me on the one condition that I should keep it shut away and not divulge it to anyone, I should reject it. There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.\"": 285, "Seneca says, \"If you gain from a crime, you did it.\"": 1055, "Seneca says, \"If you have nothing to stir you up and rouse you to action, nothing which will test your resolution by its threats and hostilities; if you recline in unshaken comfort, it is not tranquillity; it is merely a flat calm.\"": 443, "Seneca says, \"If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.\"": 424, "Seneca says, \"If you regard your last day not as a punishment but as a law of nature, the breast from which you have banished the dread of death no fear will dare to enter.\"": 43, "Seneca says, \"If you want to keep a secret, never share it.\"": 1060, "Seneca says, \"If you wish Pythocles to have pleasure for ever, do not add to his pleasures, but subtract from his desires.\"": 1044, "Seneca says, \"If you wish to be loved, love.\"": 868, "Seneca says, \"If you wish to fear nothing, consider that all things are to be feared.\"": 433, "Seneca says, \"If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.\"": 76, "Seneca says, \"Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.\"": 665, "Seneca says, \"Ignorance is the cause of fear.\"": 1065, "Seneca says, \"In every good person, there lives a god. Which god? We cannot be sure - but it is a god.\"": 782, "Seneca says, \"In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet, when it comes to the matter of wasting time, in the case of the one thing in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most prodigal.\"": 558, "Seneca says, \"In the ashes all men are levelled. We're born unequal, we die equal.\"": 155, "Seneca says, \"In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune\u2019s habit of behaving just as she pleases.\"": 981, "Seneca says, \"In times of happiness, no point in shaking things up. But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change.\"": 576, "Seneca says, \"Inflicted.\"": 912, "Seneca says, \"Injustice never rules forever.\"": 896, "Seneca says, \"Inwardly, we ought to be different in every respect, but our outward dress should blend in with the crowd.\"": 208, "Seneca says, \"Is natural to touch more often the part that hurts.\"": 196, "Seneca says, \"Istam terra de fossam premat, gravisque terrus impio capiti incubet! (As for her, let her be buried deep in earth, and heavy may the soil lie on her unholy head.).\"": 23, "Seneca says, \"It does not make any difference what a man say; what matters is how he feels, and not how he feels on one particular day but how he feels at all times.\"": 233, "Seneca says, \"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.\"": 473, "Seneca says, \"It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.\"": 284, "Seneca says, \"It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.\"": 668, "Seneca says, \"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.\"": 151, "Seneca says, \"It is a question whether he died by his own hand; for he fell from a sudden wound received in his groin, some doubting whether his death was voluntary, no one, whether it was timely.\"": 471, "Seneca says, \"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.\"": 382, "Seneca says, \"It is a small part of life we really live.\u2019 Indeed, all the rest is not life but merely time.\"": 841, "Seneca says, \"It is better to understand the balance-sheet of one\u2019s own life than of the corn trade.\"": 15, "Seneca says, \"It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants, but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.\"": 537, "Seneca says, \"It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself for difficult times; while fortune is bestowing favors on it is then is the time for it to be strengthened against her rebuffs.\"": 13, "Seneca says, \"It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.\"": 1145, "Seneca says, \"It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it.\"": 570, "Seneca says, \"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.\"": 942, "Seneca says, \"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.\"": 1120, "Seneca says, \"It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.\"": 821, "Seneca says, \"It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.\"": 685, "Seneca says, \"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.\"": 507, "Seneca says, \"It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.\"": 802, "Seneca says, \"It is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical.\"": 1093, "Seneca says, \"It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.\"": 509, "Seneca says, \"It is quality rather than quantity that matters.\"": 889, "Seneca says, \"It is shameful to hate a person who deserves your praises; but how much more shameful it is to hate someone for the very cause that makes him deserve your pity.\"": 212, "Seneca says, \"It is so, my dear Lucilius; there are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.\"": 241, "Seneca says, \"It is the mind that creates our wealth, and this goes with us into exile, and in the harshest desert places it finds sufficient to nourish the body and revels in the enjoyment of its own goods.\"": 1002, "Seneca says, \"It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.\"": 624, "Seneca says, \"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.\"": 979, "Seneca says, \"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, \u2013 the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands.\"": 197, "Seneca says, \"It is while Fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence.\"": 32, "Seneca says, \"It is wrong not to stretch out your hand to the fallen: that is a common law of the human race.\"": 505, "Seneca says, \"It makes no difference how important the provocation may be, but into what kind of soul it penetrates. Similarly with fire; it does not matter how great is the flame, but what it falls upon.\"": 853, "Seneca says, \"It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.\"": 708, "Seneca says, \"It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and \u2013 something that may surprise you more \u2013 it takes just as long to learn how to die.\"": 220, "Seneca says, \"It takes you more time to solve a problem than to set it.\"": 765, "Seneca says, \"It was nature\u2019s intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.\"": 678, "Seneca says, \"It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks.\"": 402, "Seneca says, \"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.\"": 227, "Seneca says, \"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it's been given to us in generous measure for accomplishing the greatest things, if the whole of it is well invested.\"": 380, "Seneca says, \"It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.\"": 299, "Seneca says, \"Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply long for him who orders it properly.\"": 160, "Seneca says, \"Kingdoms which act unjustly never last.\"": 874, "Seneca says, \"Kings hate to hear the things they order spoken.\"": 309, "Seneca says, \"Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by.\"": 603, "Seneca says, \"Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's.\"": 787, "Seneca says, \"Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.\"": 184, "Seneca says, \"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.\"": 1138, "Seneca says, \"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man.\"": 1209, "Seneca says, \"Let my mind be fixed on itself, cultivate itself, have no external interest \u2013 nothing that seeks the approval of another; let it cherish the tranquillity that has no part in public or private concerns.\"": 800, "Seneca says, \"Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.\"": 677, "Seneca says, \"Let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow Nature, all is easy and unobstructed; but if we combat Nature, our life differs not a whit from that of men who row against the current.\"": 239, "Seneca says, \"Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.\"": 371, "Seneca says, \"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.\"": 1071, "Seneca says, \"Life is long and there is enough of it for satisfying personal accomplishments if we use our hours well.\"": 54, "Seneca says, \"Life is long if you know how to use it.\"": 584, "Seneca says, \"Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but\u2026many, following no fixed aim, shifting and\u2026 dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course.\"": 796, "Seneca says, \"Life\u2019s finest day for wretched mortals here Is always first to flee.\"": 848, "Seneca says, \"Life\u2019s like a play. It\u2019s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.\"": 40, "Seneca says, \"Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.\"": 446, "Seneca says, \"Longing for the future and weariness of the present.\"": 194, "Seneca says, \"Love of bustle is not industry.\"": 563, "Seneca says, \"Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.\"": 596, "Seneca says, \"Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits.\"": 644, "Seneca says, \"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity!\"": 14, "Seneca says, \"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.\"": 599, "Seneca says, \"Making noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.\"": 279, "Seneca says, \"Mankind is perpetually the victim of a pointless and futile martydom, fretting life away in fruitless worries though failure to realise what limit is set to acquisition and to the growth of genuine pleasure.\"": 465, "Seneca says, \"Many pursue no fixed goal, but are tossed about in ever-changing designs by a fickleness which is shifting, inconstant and never satisfied with itself.\"": 1054, "Seneca says, \"Men are tight-fisted in keeping control of their fortunes, but when it comes to the matter of wasting time, they are positively extravagant in the one area where there is honour in being miserly.\"": 963, "Seneca says, \"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man\u2019s power to live long.\"": 11, "Seneca says, \"Men learn as they teach.\"": 259, "Seneca says, \"Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.\"": 534, "Seneca says, \"Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault\u2014those whom they have injured they also hate.\"": 167, "Seneca says, \"Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.\"": 1036, "Seneca says, \"Nero: \"Am I forbidden to do what all may do?\" Seneca: \"From high rank high example is expected.\"\"": 1182, "Seneca says, \"Never will there be a shortage of reasons for anxiety, whether born of happiness or misery; life will press on its way from one pursuit to another; leisure will never be enjoyed, though the prayer is constantly on our lips.\"": 536, "Seneca says, \"New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.\"": 679, "Seneca says, \"Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.\"": 61, "Seneca says, \"No condition is so distressing that a balanced mind cannot find some comfort in it.\"": 361, "Seneca says, \"No delicate breeze brings comfort with icy breath of wind to the hearts which pant on the flames.\"": 34, "Seneca says, \"No genius that ever won acclaim did so without a measure of indulgence. Name me any man you like who had a celebrated reputation, and I\u2019ll tell you what the age he lived in forgave him, what it turned a blind eye to in his work.\"": 971, "Seneca says, \"No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed.\"": 577, "Seneca says, \"No man finds it difficult to return to nature, except the man who has deserted nature. We.\"": 710, "Seneca says, \"No man has escaped paying the penalty for being born.\"": 41, "Seneca says, \"No man is so faint-hearted that he would rather hang in suspense for ever than drop once for all.\"": 607, "Seneca says, \"No man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.\"": 640, "Seneca says, \"No man, if he be ungrateful, will be unhappy in the future. I allow him no day of grace; he is unhappy forthwith.\"": 306, "Seneca says, \"No one becomes a laughingstock who laughs at himself.\"": 661, "Seneca says, \"No one dies except on his own day. You are throwing away none of your own time; for what you leave behind does not belong to you.\"": 136, "Seneca says, \"No one keeps himself waiting; and yet the greatest cure for anger is to wait, so that the initial passion it engenders may die down, and the fog that shrouds the mind may subside, or become less thick.\"": 1180, "Seneca says, \"No one willingly reverts to the past unless all his actions have passed his own censorship, which is never deceived.\"": 986, "Seneca says, \"Not all men are wounded in the same place; and so you ought to know what part of you is weak, so you can give it the most protection.\"": 608, "Seneca says, \"Nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent changes of treatment.\"": 635, "Seneca says, \"Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.\"": 29, "Seneca says, \"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.\"": 727, "Seneca says, \"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man\u2019s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.\"": 788, "Seneca says, \"N\u016bllum magnum ingenium sine mixt\u016br\u0101 d\u0113mentiae fuit No great talent without an element of madness.\"": 1087, "Seneca says, \"O how many noble deeds of women are lost in obscurity!\"": 675, "Seneca says, \"Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not only their own lifetime they guard well: they add every age to their own.\"": 173, "Seneca says, \"Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.\"": 508, "Seneca says, \"Offer new prayers; pray for a sound mind and for good health, first of soul and then of body.\"": 1141, "Seneca says, \"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.\"": 560, "Seneca says, \"Often it is better to hide an illness from the patient, because just the mere awareness of a disease can bring about death.\"": 928, "Seneca says, \"On Epicurus; He says: \"Contended poverty is an honourable estate.\" Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.\"": 983, "Seneca says, \"One can expect an agreement between philosophers sooner than between clocks.\"": 337, "Seneca says, \"One cannot sincerely weep over getting what one wanted.\"": 1152, "Seneca says, \"One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavat).\"": 1050, "Seneca says, \"Only time can heal what reason cannot.\"": 216, "Seneca says, \"Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.\"": 834, "Seneca says, \"Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.\"": 147, "Seneca says, \"Part of my joy in learning is that it puts me in a position to teach; nothing, however outstanding and however helpful, will ever give me any pleasure if the knowledge is for my benefit alone.\"": 606, "Seneca says, \"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.\"": 490, "Seneca says, \"Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.\"": 1063, "Seneca says, \"Plague on it! what madness this is, to punish one's self because one is unfortunate, and not to lessen, but to increase one's ills!\"": 831, "Seneca says, \"Plato says: \"Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave has had kings among his ancestors.\" The flight of time, with its vicissitudes, has jumbled all such things together, and Fortune has turned them upside down.\"": 1190, "Seneca says, \"Pleasure, unless it has been kept within bounds, tends to rush headlong into the abyss of sorrow.\"": 238, "Seneca says, \"Poor woman, do you want to know where hatred ends? Look to love.\"": 334, "Seneca says, \"Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes.\"": 201, "Seneca says, \"Poverty will keep for you your true and tried friends; you will be rid of the men who were not seeking you for yourself, but for something which you have.\"": 137, "Seneca says, \"Read good books many times, rather than many books.\"": 1097, "Seneca says, \"Reading of many books is distraction.\"": 1123, "Seneca says, \"Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.\"": 950, "Seneca says, \"Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure, but never enjoy it.\"": 318, "Seneca says, \"Reflect how pleasant it is to demand nothing, how noble it is to be contented and not to be dependent upon Fortune.\"": 1031, "Seneca says, \"Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.\"": 904, "Seneca says, \"Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.\"": 1091, "Seneca says, \"Restless people often pretend to be calm.\"": 775, "Seneca says, \"Revenge is an admission that we have been hurt. That cannot be a great mind which is disturbed by injury. He who has hurt you must be either stronger or weaker than yourself. If he be weaker, spare him: if he be stronger, spare yourself.\"": 426, "Seneca says, \"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?\"\"": 1037, "Seneca says, \"Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: 'Is this the condition that I feared?\"": 557, "Seneca says, \"Silently time sneaks up on you, each hour gone is followed by a worse one.\"": 311, "Seneca says, \"Similarly, too rich a soil makes the grain fall flat, branches break down under too heavy a load, excessive productiveness does not bring fruit to ripeness.\"": 951, "Seneca says, \"So I have never believed that there was any genuine good in the things which everyone prays for; what is more, I have found them empty and daubed with showy and deceptive colours, with nothing inside to match their appearance.\"": 461, "Seneca says, \"So you must match time\u2019s swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow.\"": 134, "Seneca says, \"Some men have shrunk so far into dark corners that objects in bright daylight seem quite blurred to them.\u2019 A.\"": 51, "Seneca says, \"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.\"": 17, "Seneca says, \"Speak ill of yourself when by yourself; then you will become accustomed both to speak and to hear the truth.\"": 580, "Seneca says, \"Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.\"": 1112, "Seneca says, \"Stolid pack-animals are much more fit for carrying loads than thoroughbred horses: who ever subdued their noble speed with a heavy burden?\"": 797, "Seneca says, \"Stop preventing philosophers from possessing money; no one has condemned wisdom to poverty. I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.\"": 1155, "Seneca says, \"That advocate is lionized throughout the whole forum, and fills all the place with a great crowd that stretches farther than he can be heard, yet he says: \u201cWhen will vacation time come?\u201d\"": 459, "Seneca says, \"That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.\"": 820, "Seneca says, \"That man who had prayed for the fasces, when he attains them, desires to lay them aside and says over and over: \u201cWhen will this year be over!\u201d\"": 258, "Seneca says, \"That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.\"": 305, "Seneca says, \"That which takes effect by chance is not an art.\"": 1207, "Seneca says, \"The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.\"": 623, "Seneca says, \"The belly will not listen to advice; it makes demands, it importunes. And yet it is not a troublesome creditor; you can send it away at small cost, provided only that you give it what you owe, not merely all you are able to.\"": 712, "Seneca says, \"The best compromise between love and good sense is both to feel longing and to conquer it.\"": 718, "Seneca says, \"The best ideas are common property.\"": 825, "Seneca says, \"The body\u2019s needs are few: it wants to be free from cold, to banish hunger and thirst with nourishment; if we long for anything more we are exerting ourselves to serve our vices, not our needs.\"": 1047, "Seneca says, \"The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.\"": 859, "Seneca says, \"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.\"": 842, "Seneca says, \"The busy man is busy with everything except living; there is nothing that is more difficult to learn how to do right.\"": 367, "Seneca says, \"The busy man remains rooted to the ground, ever stuck in the present, a time so brief that it cannot be grasped, and thus it is stolen from him, busy as he is with so many things.\"": 140, "Seneca says, \"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.\"": 526, "Seneca says, \"The day which we fear is out last is buth the birthday of eternity.\"": 183, "Seneca says, \"The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.\"": 620, "Seneca says, \"The fates lead those who will those who won't they drag.\"": 879, "Seneca says, \"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.\"": 643, "Seneca says, \"The first thing which philosophy undertakes to give is fellow-feeling with all men; in other words, sympathy and sociability.\"": 876, "Seneca says, \"The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.\"": 1181, "Seneca says, \"The geometrician teaches me how I may avoid losing any fraction of my estates, but what I really want to learn is how to lose the lot and still keep smiling.\"": 504, "Seneca says, \"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.\"": 322, "Seneca says, \"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today.\"": 855, "Seneca says, \"The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature.\"": 823, "Seneca says, \"The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever has said, \"I have lived\" receives a windfall every day he gets up in the morning.\"": 1136, "Seneca says, \"The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day.\"": 1020, "Seneca says, \"The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.\"": 546, "Seneca says, \"The man who tries to find out what has been said against him, who seeks to unearth spiteful gossip, even when engaged in privately, is destroying his own peace of mind.\"": 278, "Seneca says, \"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.\"": 1048, "Seneca says, \"The mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply.\"": 320, "Seneca says, \"The more a mind takes in the more it expands.\"": 1081, "Seneca says, \"The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.\"": 1029, "Seneca says, \"The only really leisured people are those who devote time to acquiring true knowledge rather than trivia. .\"": 110, "Seneca says, \"The other side shall be heard as well.\"": 107, "Seneca says, \"The past is ours, and there is nothing more secure for us than that which has been. We are ungrateful for past gains, because we hope for the future, as if the future \u2013 if so be that any future is ours \u2013 will not be quickly blended with the past.\"": 815, "Seneca says, \"The preoccupied become aware of it only when it is over.\"": 405, "Seneca says, \"The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.\"": 989, "Seneca says, \"The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.\"": 19, "Seneca says, \"The sun also shines on the wicked.\"": 850, "Seneca says, \"The surest way for those who want to rule is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet.\"": 1030, "Seneca says, \"The things that are indispensable require no elaborate pains for their acquisition; it is only the luxuries that call for labour. Follow nature, and you will need no skilled craftsmen.\"": 396, "Seneca says, \"The time of the actual enjoyment is short and swift, and made much shorter through their own fault. For they dash from one pleasure to another and cannot stay steady in one desire.\"": 20, "Seneca says, \"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.\"": 900, "Seneca says, \"The wise man is self-sufficient, that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them. When I say \"can,\" I mean this: he endures the loss of a friend with equanimity.\"": 364, "Seneca says, \"There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.\"": 531, "Seneca says, \"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.\"": 374, "Seneca says, \"There has never been a great mind without some degree of madness.\"": 300, "Seneca says, \"There is a sequence about the creative process, and a work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be subtracted without disaster.\"": 1076, "Seneca says, \"There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring.\"": 916, "Seneca says, \"There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.\"": 372, "Seneca says, \"There is never a time when new distraction will not show up; we sow them, so several will grow from the same seed.\"": 836, "Seneca says, \"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.\"": 740, "Seneca says, \"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.\"": 102, "Seneca says, \"There is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn\u2019t know where to go.\"": 441, "Seneca says, \"There is no genius without a touch of madness.\"": 125, "Seneca says, \"There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable.\"": 469, "Seneca says, \"There will always be causes for anxiety, whether due to prosperity or to wretchedness. Life will be driven on through a succession of preoccupations: we shall always long for leisure, but never enjoy it.\"": 849, "Seneca says, \"Therefore it is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it. For if it has withdrawn, being merely beguiled by pleasures and preoccupations, it starts up again and from its very respite gains force to savage us.\"": 664, "Seneca says, \"Therefore, my dear Lucilius, begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. He who has thus prepared himself, he whose daily life has been a rounded whole, is easy in his mind.\"": 72, "Seneca says, \"Therefore, nothing ought to be unexpected by us. Our minds should be sent forward in advance to meet all problems, and we should consider, not what is wont to happen, but what can happen.\"": 689, "Seneca says, \"They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.\"": 409, "Seneca says, \"They lose the day in waiting for the night, and the night in fearing the dawn.\"": 56, "Seneca says, \"Think for a long time whether or not you should admit a given person to your friendship. But when you have decided to do so, welcome him heart and soul, and speak as unreservedly with him as you would with yourself.\"": 1137, "Seneca says, \"Think your way through difficulties: harsh conditions can be softened, restricted ones can be widened, and heavy ones can weigh less on those who know how to bear them.\"": 1102, "Seneca says, \"This evil of taking our cue from others has become so deeply ingrained that even that most basic feeling, grief, degenerates into imitation.\"": 60, "Seneca says, \"This will not be a gentle prescription for healing, but cautery and the knife. What shall I achieve? That a soul which has conquered so many miseries will be ashamed to worry about one more wound in a body which already has so many scars.\"": 112, "Seneca says, \"This wretched body, the chain and prison of the soul, is tossed hither and thither; upon it punishment and pillage and disease wreak havoc: but the soul itself is holy and eternal, and it cannot be assailed with violence.\"": 673, "Seneca says, \"Those who are busy with other things do not notice it until the end comes.\"": 1015, "Seneca says, \"Those who forget the past, ignore the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and filled with anxiety.\"": 706, "Seneca says, \"Those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and troubled. They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.\"": 145, "Seneca says, \"Thus far, you have indeed not been sluggish, but you must quicken your pace. Much toil remains; to confront it, you must yourself lavish all your waking hours, and all your efforts, if you wish the result to be accomplished.\"": 127, "Seneca says, \"Thus the time we are given is not brief, but we make it so. We do not lack time; on the contrary, there is so much of it that we waste an awful lot.\"": 864, "Seneca says, \"Time flies on fickle wings.\"": 518, "Seneca says, \"Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.\"": 1064, "Seneca says, \"To be everywhere is to be nowhere.\"": 436, "Seneca says, \"To be everywhere, is to be no where at all.\"": 605, "Seneca says, \"To be everywhere; is to nowhere.\"": 645, "Seneca says, \"To have may be taken from us, to have had, never. A man is thankless in the highest degree if, after losing something, he feels no obligation for having received it.\"": 697, "Seneca says, \"To know how many are jealous of you, count your admirers.\"": 881, "Seneca says, \"To live under constraint is a misfortune, but there is no constraint to live under constraint.\"": 142, "Seneca says, \"To make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.\"": 568, "Seneca says, \"To reduce your worry, you must assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.\"": 987, "Seneca says, \"To what lengths would so precocious an ambition not go?\"": 200, "Seneca says, \"To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.\"": 517, "Seneca says, \"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.\"": 699, "Seneca says, \"Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors. And whenever it strikes you how much power you have over your slave, let it also strike you that your own master has just as much power over you.\"": 653, "Seneca says, \"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 with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.\"": 391, "Seneca says, \"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.\"": 291, "Seneca says, \"Ubicumque ex aequo ad caelum erigitur acies, paribus intervallis omnia divina ab omnibus humanis distant - From whatever point on the earth's surface you look up to heaven the same distance lies between the realms of gods and men.\"": 464, "Seneca says, \"Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.\"": 186, "Seneca says, \"Unless we are complete ingrates, the lives of all those men that preceded us should be seen as sacred. Their collective existence paved the way for our own time on Earth.\"": 627, "Seneca says, \"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.\"": 223, "Seneca says, \"Vices have to be crushed rather than picked at.\"": 341, "Seneca says, \"We abandon nature and surrender to the mob \u2013 who are never good advisers in anything, and in this respect as in all others are most inconsistent.\"": 411, "Seneca says, \"We all rush through life torn between a desire for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who devotes his time to his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears for tomorrow.\"": 1066, "Seneca says, \"We always feel anger longer than we feel hurt.\"": 791, "Seneca says, \"We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who were allotted to us, that they were given to us by chance. But we can choose whose children we would like to be.\"": 399, "Seneca says, \"We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?\"": 1162, "Seneca says, \"We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.\"": 703, "Seneca says, \"We do not need many words, but, rather, effective words.\"": 812, "Seneca says, \"We do not receive a life that is short, but rather we make it so; we are not beggar in it, but spendthrifts.\"": 1172, "Seneca says, \"We learn not in the school, but in life.\"": 997, "Seneca says, \"We live among wicked man through our own wickedness. One thing alone can bring us peace, an agreement to treat one another with kindness.\"": 1206, "Seneca says, \"We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.\"": 693, "Seneca says, \"We ought frequently to remind ourselves that we must love the things of this life as we would what is shortly to leave us, or indeed in the very act of leaving us.\"": 234, "Seneca says, \"We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.\"": 1142, "Seneca says, \"We shall be rich with all the more comfort, if we once learn how far poverty is from being a burden.\"": 694, "Seneca says, \"We should often withdraw into ourselves; for mixing with persons of dissimilar natures throws into disorder our settled composure and wakens our passions anew, exacerbating whatever is weak in the mind and not properly healed.\"": 1175, "Seneca says, \"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.\"": 657, "Seneca says, \"Wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use.\"": 1072, "Seneca says, \"Weigh carefully your hopes as well as your fears, and whenever all the elements are in doubt, decide in your own favour; believe what you prefer.\"": 1139, "Seneca says, \"What Chance has made yours is not really yours.\"": 888, "Seneca says, \"What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?\"": 1151, "Seneca says, \"What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you\u2019re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.\"": 343, "Seneca says, \"What is freedom, you ask? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it.\"": 1202, "Seneca says, \"What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?\"": 479, "Seneca says, \"What is sweeter than to be so valued by one's wife that one becomes more valuable to oneself for this reason? Hence my dear Paulina is able to make me responsible, not only for her fears, but also for my own.\"": 492, "Seneca says, \"What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?\"": 474, "Seneca says, \"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.\"": 421, "Seneca says, \"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.\"": 252, "Seneca says, \"What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.\"": 321, "Seneca says, \"What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?\"": 1001, "Seneca says, \"What's the use of overcoming opponent after opponent in the wrestling or boxing rings if you can be overcome by your temper?\"": 182, "Seneca says, \"Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.\"": 386, "Seneca says, \"When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, \"Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.\"\"": 1149, "Seneca says, \"When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, 'Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.\"": 898, "Seneca says, \"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.\"": 42, "Seneca says, \"When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd: it is so easy for it to go over to the majority.\"": 1118, "Seneca says, \"When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.\"": 790, "Seneca says, \"When one is busy and absorbed in one's work, the very absorption affords great delight; but when one has withdrawn one's hand from the completed masterpiece, the pleasure is not so keen.\"": 852, "Seneca says, \"When things are at their worst, there are no tears.\"": 683, "Seneca says, \"Whenever I wish to enjoy the quips of a clown, I am not compelled to hunt far; I can laugh at myself.\"": 585, "Seneca says, \"Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.\"": 1177, "Seneca says, \"Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.\"": 57, "Seneca says, \"Where, then, lies the mistake, since all men crave the happy life? It is that they regard the means for producing happiness as happiness itself, and, while seeking happiness, they are really fleeing from it.\"": 980, "Seneca says, \"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.\"": 499, "Seneca says, \"While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.\"": 225, "Seneca says, \"While we are postponing, life speeds by.\"": 702, "Seneca says, \"While we wait for life, life passes.\"": 442, "Seneca says, \"Who as though inspired with divine utterance sings salutary verses: Life.\"": 949, "Seneca says, \"Why do you voluntarily deceive yourself and require to be told now for the first time what fate it is that you have long been labouring under? Take my word for it: since the day you were born you are being led thither.\"": 385, "Seneca says, \"Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.\"": 957, "Seneca says, \"Why need we weep over parts of our life? the whole of it calls for tears: new miseries assail us before we have freed ourselves from the old ones.\"": 381, "Seneca says, \"Why not stop trying to prevent posterity being silent about you? You were born to die, and a silent funeral is less bothersome.\"": 1006, "Seneca says, \"Why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave? .\"": 590, "Seneca says, \"Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.\"": 783, "Seneca says, \"Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.\"": 829, "Seneca says, \"Would you rather be poor and sated, or rich and hungry? Prosperity is not only greedy, but it also lies exposed to the greed of others. And as long as nothing satisfies you, you yourself cannot satisfy others.\"": 272, "Seneca says, \"Write something therefore in a simple style, merely to pass the time, for your own use, and not for publication. Less labour is needed when one does not look beyond the present.\" Then.\"": 958, "Seneca says, \"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.\"": 1110, "Seneca says, \"You are retained as counsel for unhappy mankind. You have promised to help those in peril by sea, those in captivity, the sick and the needy, and those whose heads are under the poised axe. Whither are you straying? What are you doing?\"": 1078, "Seneca says, \"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself.\"": 317, "Seneca says, \"You can put up with a change of place if only the place is changed.\"": 195, "Seneca says, \"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.\u201d Difficult.\"": 228, "Seneca says, \"You live as if you will live forever, no care for your mortality ever enters your head, you pay no mind to how much time has already gone by.\"": 948, "Seneca says, \"You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you.\"": 773, "Seneca says, \"You must set your hands to tasks which you can finish or at least hope to finish, and avoid those which get bigger as you proceed and do not cease where you had intended.\"": 1017, "Seneca says, \"You must vie with time's swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.\"": 1178, "Seneca says, \"You will notice that the most powerful and highly stationed men let drop remarks in which they pray for leisure, praise it, and rate it higher than all their blessings.\"": 867, "Seneca says, \"Your greatest difficulty is with yourself; for you are your own stumbling-block.\"": 365, "Seneca says, \"because it is natural to touch more often the parts that hurt.\"": 310 }, "max_position_embeddings": 512, "model_type": "distilbert", "n_heads": 12, "n_layers": 6, "pad_token_id": 0, "problem_type": "single_label_classification", "qa_dropout": 0.1, "seq_classif_dropout": 0.2, "sinusoidal_pos_embds": false, "tie_weights_": true, "torch_dtype": "float32", "transformers_version": "4.31.0", "vocab_size": 30522 }