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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
– Epictetus

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.
– Epictetus

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say ‘I am an Athenian’ or ‘I am a Roman’ but ‘I am a citizen of the Universe.
-Marcus Aurelius

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
-Seneca the Younger

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
-Seneca the Younger

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
-Marcus Aurelius

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
– Epictetus

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
-Marcus Aurelius

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
-Marcus Aurelius

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
-Seneca the Younger