We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."
- attributed often to Cato the Elder or Marcus Porcius Cato (234 BC - 149 BC)
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
- Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135). He was a Stoic philosopher
He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more."
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC) (Known also as "Horace" in English) He was an Epicurean.
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow."
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC) (Known also as "Horace" in English) "..dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."
Happiness is a good flow of life."
- Zeno of Citium (334 BC – 262 BC). He was a Greek philosopher from Cyprus, who founded Stoicism.
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear."
- Quintus Curtius Rufus. He was a Roman historian, writing probably during the reign of the Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) or Vespasian.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives."
- attributed often to Cato the Elder or Marcus Porcius Cato (234 BC - 149 BC)
Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life."
- Epictetus
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