508 Quotes About Stoicism

[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: "What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟

Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.

[A] man is wealthy if he has attuned himself to his restricted means and has made himself rich on little.

People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.

Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put theirpreaching into practice

Even in the longest life real living is the least portion thereof.

Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.

In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.

Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.