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I will reveal to you a love potion, without medicine, without herbs, without any witch’s magic; if you want to be loved, then love.

Hecaton of Rhodes

If man is moderated and contented, then even age is no burden; if he is not, then even youth is full of cares.

Plato

A pleasant and happy life does not come form external things: man draws from within himself, as from a spring , pleasure and joy.

Plutarch

In the world of knowledge the idea of the good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

Socrates

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent: then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, not too sorrowful in misfortune.

Socrates

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent: then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, not too sorrowful in misfortune.

Socrates

Every man will fall, though born a man, proudly presumes to be a superman.

Sophocles

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the felling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Remember that you are only an actor in a play, which the manager directs.

Epictetus

Then I Oedipus, presented myself, who was ignorant; I consulted no augur, but by a simple effort of reflection silenced the Sphinx.

Sophocles, from Oedipus the King

What is difficult? It is difficult to learn something about yourself.

Thales of Miletus

I proclaim that justice is nothing else that the interest of the stronger.

Thrasymachus

Know thyself.

Thales (Socrates cites the Seven Sages of Greece in Plato’s Protagoras)

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Happiness is self-contentedness.

Aristotle

One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.

Epictetus

Bear patiently, my heart - for you have suffered heavier things.

Homer

He only lives, who living enjoys life.

Menander

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Remember that you are only an actor in a play, which the manager directs.

Epictetus

As god disposes man laughs or weeps.

Sopocles

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; but if according to opinions, you will never be rich. Nature demands little, opinion a great deal.

Epicurus

Live today, forget the cares of the past.

Epicurus

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Nothing in excess.

Chilon

He who submits to fate without complaint is wise.

Euripides

All I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates

All I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates

One is rich not through one’s possessions, but through that which can can with dignity do without.

Epicurus

As god disposes man laughs or weeps.

Sopocles
Young men err in everything by excess and vehemence, contrary to the precept of Chilon; they do all things too much, since they love and hate too much, and likewise in everything else. They fancy and insist that they know all things, and this is why they overdo everything.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses
Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves, that is, our ideas about things.
It is not good for all your wishes to be fulfilled: through sickness you recognize the value of health , through evil the value of good, through hunger satisfaction, through exertion, the value of rest
If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.
Look death in the face with joyful hope, and consider this a lasting truth: the righteous man has nothing to fear, neither in life, nor in death, and the gods will not forsake him.

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