"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." —Marcus Aurelius

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly." —Marcus Aurelius

"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today." —Seneca

"People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work." —Marcus Aurelius

"If it’s endurable, then endure it, stop complaining." —Marcus Aurelius

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." —Plato

"Speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility." —Marcus Aurelius

"The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams." —Plato, The Republic

"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." —Marcus Aurelius

"The highest good is not to seek to do good but to allow yourself to become it." —Hierocles