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- Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- No man is happy who does not think himself so.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD), Satires
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
- Saint John Chrysostom (347 AD - 407 AD), Letter to Olympia
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