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Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
– Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is ours except time.
– Seneca the Younger

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
– Seneca the Younger

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
– Marcus Aurelius

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
– Marcus Aurelius

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
– Epictetus

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our life’s purpose.
– Epictetus

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
– Seneca the Younger

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
– Seneca the Younger

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
– Epictetus