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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

SenecaOn the Shortness of Life

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

SenecaLetters from a Stoic

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

AristotleNicomachean Ethics

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

AristotleNicomachean Ethics (Book II)

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

AristotleAttributed (widely quoted)

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.

PlatoThe Republic (Allegory of the Cave)

Necessity is the mother of invention.

PlatoThe Republic (Book II)

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

PlatoAttributed (source uncertain)

Know thyself.

SocratesDelphic maxim (Temple of Apollo at Delphi)

The unexamined life is not worth living.

SocratesPlato's Apology (38a)

I know that I know nothing.

SocratesPlato's Apology

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao TzuTao Te Ching

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Lao TzuTao Te Ching, Chapter 33

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao TzuTao Te Ching, Chapter 64

Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.

ConfuciusThe Analects

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

ConfuciusAttributed to Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

ConfuciusThe Analects

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Sun TzuThe Art of War

All warfare is based on deception.

Sun TzuThe Art of War

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Sun TzuThe Art of War

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