Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Endure and renounce.

-- Epictetus

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labour passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

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

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche