wisdom

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
-Seneca

Freedom and happiness come from understanding – and working with – our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery.
-Epictetus

Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
-Marcus Aurelius

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
-Marcus Aurelius

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life — in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
-Seneca

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
-Epictetus

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
-Marcus Aurelius

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
-Seneca

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
-Epictetus