1. “All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.” ― Apollonius of Tyana
2. “Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.” ― Epicurus
3. “Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.” ― Socrates
4. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ― Aristotle
5. “No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.” ― Heraclitus
6. “When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” ― Epictetus
7. “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.” ― Aristotle
8. “Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.” ― Democritus
9. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” ― Aristotle
10. “Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.” ― Epicurus
11. “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” ― Socrates
12. “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” ― Socrates (see more quotes by Socrates)
13. “If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.” ― Democritus
14. “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” ― Democritus
15. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” ― Aristotle
16. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” ― Aristotle
17. “Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.” ― Democritus
18. “If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.” ― Chrysippus
19. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” ― Heraclitus
20. “It is a true man’s part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.” ― Apollonius of Tyana
21. “Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.” ― Epictetus (see more Epictetus quotes)
22. “Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.” ― Democritus
23. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ― Aristotle
24. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” ― Churchill
25. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” ― Diogenes
26. “For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.” ― Plato
27. “It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.” ― Heraclitus
28. “He has the most who is most content with the least.” ― Diogenes
29. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus
30. “Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.” ― Citium Zeno
31. “Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.” ― Plutarch
32. “No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.” ― Plato
33. “Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.” ― Plato
34. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” ― Plutarch
35. “No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.” ― Heraclitus
36. “Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.” ― Aristotle
37. “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” ― Aristotle
