Benjamin Franklin

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."

- Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished."

- Benjamin Franklin

Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

- Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

Cicero

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

- Cicero, ancient Roman orator, politician and author

Aeschylus

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering"

- Aeschylus, Greek playwright

Aeschylus

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times”

- Aeschylus, Greek playwright

Demosthenes

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."


- Demosthenes, Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens

Aeschylus

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present pain"

- Aeschylus, Greek playwright (colloquially known as the "author of tragedy")

Benjamin Franklin

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

- Benjamin Franklin