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To be, or not to be: that is the question.

William ShakespeareHamlet (Act 3, Scene 1)

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da VinciAttributed (possibly by Clare Boothe Luce)

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da VinciAttributed

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da VinciNotebooks

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

Marcus AureliusMeditations (Book V)

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus AureliusMeditations (Book X)

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus AureliusMeditations

Some things are in our control and others not. Focus on what you can control.

EpictetusEnchiridion (Opening lines)

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

EpictetusAttributed (also attributed to Zeno of Citium)

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

EpictetusEnchiridion

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

SenecaAttributed (source uncertain)

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

SenecaOn the Shortness of Life

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

SenecaLetters from a Stoic

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

AristotleNicomachean Ethics

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

AristotleNicomachean Ethics (Book II)

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

AristotleAttributed (widely quoted)

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

PlatoThe Republic (Allegory of the Cave)

Necessity is the mother of invention.

PlatoThe Republic (Book II)

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

PlatoAttributed (source uncertain)

Know thyself.

SocratesDelphic maxim (Temple of Apollo at Delphi)

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