If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Epictetus

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest, as the means that accommodates human life with a soft and easy tranquility, and gives us a pure and pleasant taste of living, without which all other pleasure would be extinct.

Michel de Montaigne

El dolor caliente de hoy es la fría sabiduría de mañana…

El emperador Estoico

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Seneca

He who overcomes himself is mighty.

Lao Tzu

Conviction is much more powerful than "positive thinking".

The Stoic Emperor