mindset Quotes

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.