Accepting the inevitable is the beginning of strength and freedom. Embrace all chaos that is out of your control. This is how it is. Why should it be otherwise?

The Stoic Emperor

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Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. The mighty pyramids and cathedrals were built by civilizations with a long time horizon, so it is with the life of a great man.

The Stoic Emperor

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

Some people spend their whole lives waiting for the sound of a starting gun that never goes off. Don't wait. Pull the trigger yourself.

The Stoic Emperor

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.

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