{"values":"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"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"}
{"values":"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."}
{"values":"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. - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"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"}
{"values":"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? - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"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. - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."}
{"values":"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. - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"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'. - Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"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. Marcus Aurelius"}
{"values":"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Seneca"}
{"values":"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. - Seneca"}
{"values":"All cruelty springs from weakness. - Seneca"}
{"values":"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca"}
{"values":"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. - Seneca"}
{"values":"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. - Seneca"}
{"values":" It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Seneca"}
{"values":"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. - Seneca"}
{"values":"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. - Seneca"}
{"values":"He who is brave is free. - Seneca"}
{"values":"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus"}
{"values":"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. - Epictetus"}
{"values":"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus"}
{"values":"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. - Epictetus"}
{"values":"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. - Epictetus"}
{"values":"Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus"}
{"values":"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus"}