"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" —Seneca

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." —Marcus Aurelius

"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow." —Cicero

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." —Plato

"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?" —Marcus Aurelius