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16. “When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” –  Epictetus If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to check out our collection of Friedrich Nietzsche quotes on life and love. 17. “He has the most who is most content with the least.” –  Diogenes 18. “Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.” –  Heraclitus 19. “Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.” –   Democritus 20. “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” –  Plato

11. “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” –  Democritus 12. “Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.” –  Epictetus   (see more  Epictetus quotes ) 13. “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” –  Socrates 14. “All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.” –  Apollonius of Tyana 15. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” –  Aristotle

6. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” –  Aristotle 7. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” –  Heraclitus 8. “For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.” –  Plato 9. “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” –   Aristotle 10. “If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.” –  Chrysippus

1. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” –  Aristotle 2. “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” –  Socrates  (see more quotes by Socrates) 3. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” –  Diogenes 4. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” –  Churchill  5. “Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.” –  Socrates