508 Quotes About Stoicism

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing

As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.

We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.

Being in a hurry does not slow down time.

Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.

One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.

It is the human race, not the world, that desperately needs to be changed.