508 Quotes About Stoicism

Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.

Someone has to be stoic, for the sake of, in spite of, and in the face of all those who are, not. Someone, has to be serious. Someone has to choose to forgo choice, so that there is an option left for others to consider. Everyone can't be, someone.

The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.

Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.

We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.

Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.

We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.

Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.

You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.