If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct it. If it be a lie, laugh at it." - Epictetus
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct it. If it be a lie, laugh at it." - Epictetus
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions." - Marcus Aurelius
"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