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

As in all things, we suffer from excess in reading too. Many books are a burden, not an ornament.

It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.

Anger, if not obeyed, fades; once it enters the mind and pervades habit, vice becomes law.

It is the quality of your life that matters, not its length.

Endure and renounce.

-- Epictetus

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

If you carve without ceasing, even metal and stone can be engraved.

-- Xunzi

We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.

-- Mencius

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche