"For mankind, evil is injustice and cruelty and indifference to a neighbor's trouble, while virtue is brotherly love and justice and beneficence and concern for the welfare of your neighbor" - Gaius Musonius Rufus
"For mankind, evil is injustice and cruelty and indifference to a neighbor's trouble, while virtue is brotherly love and justice and beneficence and concern for the welfare of your neighbor" - Gaius Musonius Rufus
"Don't hope that events will turn out as you want. Welcome events in whichever way they happen; this is the path to peace." - Epictetus
"Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it." - Marcus Aurelius
" Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying or thinking, or scheming - in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you - means a loss of opportunity for some other task." - Marcus Aurelius
"It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do by example.:" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It is silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own." - Marcus Aurelius
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"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?
For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years are behind us are in death's hands." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"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." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca