Lincoln

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
― Eric Weiner, The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

“When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

“he who has ambitiously yearned to possess, proudly scorned, recklessly conquered, treacherously betrayed, greedily seized, or lavishly squandered, must fear his own memory.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader

“I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden