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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

“Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
― Seneca

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
― Seneca

“How much better it is that you defeat anger than that it defeats itself!”
― Seneca, Dialogues and Essays

“Ungoverned anger begets madness.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”
― Epictetus

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus

“No malgastes lo que te queda de vida en conjeturar sobre los demás, a no ser que busques el bien común; pues si te dedicas a imaginar qué hace la gente, por qué, qué dice, que piensa, qué trama, y cosas parecidas, dejarás de observar tu propia conciencia interior.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditaciones

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
― Henry Ward Beecher