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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend’s success without envy…. I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade. - Aeschylus
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse. - Aeschylus
Whatever happens at all happens as it should. - Marcus Aurelius
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. - Marcus Aurelius
Remember this,—that very little is needed to make a happy life. - Marcus Aurelius
Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation. - Marcus Aurelius
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. - Marcus Aurelius
He is never less at leisure than when at leisure. - Cicero
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. - Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs - Euripides
A philosopher is either great or married. - Gadfly
They died, as if o’ercome by sleep. - Hesiod
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. - Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem. - Montaigne
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older. - Montaigne
Not because Socrates said so,… I look upon all men as my compatriots. - Montaigne
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. - Montaigne
There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the things, and more books upon books than upon all other subjects; we do nothing but comment upon one another. - Montaigne
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. - Montaigne
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. - Pliny the Younger
’T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track. - Plutarch
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. - Socrates
Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right. - Sophocles
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. - Sophocles
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. - Sophocles
The truth is always the strongest argument. - Sophocles
If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles. - Sophocles
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The third one, you have to spend time to find what's your own way, then you can follow. But most poeple got
their own way exactly as common way.