Quotes

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Passion 

  1. “ A person who is captured by his passions cannot be free.” Pythagoras 

  2. “A man who has not passed through The Inferno of his Passions has never overcome them.” - Carl Jung

  3. “A smart person fights passion, but a fool becomes its slave.”- Epictetus


Philosophy

  1. “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”- Epictetus

  2. “Don't explain your philosophy embody it.”- Epictetus

  3. “People are happy to find an excuse for their transgressions, while philosophy teaches not to stretch, without thinking even a finger.”- Epictetus


Possession

  1. “Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible.”  Albert Einstein   

  2. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”- Epictetus

  3. “If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”- Seneca

  4. “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more that is poor.”- Seneca

  5. “Who is the rich man? He who is content.”- Epictetus 


Power

  1. "No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”- Seneca

  2. “You have power over your mind - not outside events realize this, and you will find strength.”- Marcus Aurelius

  3. “He is the most powerful who has power over himself.”- Marcus Aurelius

  4. "No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.”- Epictetus

  5. “It's time you realize that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”- Marcus Aurelius

  6. “Power is the near neighbour of necessity.”  Pythagoras


Respect

  1. “Above all things respect yourself”  Pythagoras

  2. “Above the cloud with its light. Above all things reverence themselves.”  Pythagoras

  3. “Respect the past, be open to the future.”- Seneca 


Rules

  1. “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”- Marcus Aurelius


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