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“There is a virtue, Simmias, which is named courage. Is not that a special attribute of the philosopher? ...Again, there is temperance. Is not the calm, and control, and disdain of the passions which even the many call temperance, a quality belonging only to those who despise the body and live in philosophy?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.”
The Post Office Girl • Stefan Zweig“In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“Often the only difference between a problem being painful or being powerful is a sense that we chose it, and that we are responsible for it.”
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck • Mark Manson