“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

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.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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

Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.