508 Quotes About Stoicism

To live is to owe life to die.

Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?

A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.

There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.”It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now.I love so many people, still.I think I will write about them forever.

man was given two ears and one mouth for a reason

I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.

Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.

Najlepší spôsob obrany je nepodobať sa tým, čo nám ubližujú.

Si len úbohá dušička nesúca mŕtvolu,” ako vravel Epiktetos.