William Anthony > William's Quotes

“If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.”
― Epicurus

“Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.”
― Epicurus

“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“We treat the body rigorously so that it will not be disobedient to the mind.”
― Seneca

“Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.”
― Epictetus

“The tranquillity that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. (Is this fair? Is this the right thing to do?) < . . . > not to be distracted by their darkness. To run straight for the finish line, unswerving.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“You don't have to pee on an electric fence to learn not to do it”
― Charlie Munger

“True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
― Seneca

“And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca