508 Quotes About Stoicism

Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.

The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die.

Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.

We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn‟t born for one particular corner: the whole world‟s my home country.

We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.

I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. [...] Truth lies open to everyone.

There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's.You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.

[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.