508 Quotes About Stoicism

If I did compress what I know and think about the spanish civil war into 6 lines you wouldn't print it. You wouldn't have the guts.

Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.

It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.

[W]hat cause can there be for complaint, after all, in anything that was always bound to come to an end fading gradually away? What is troubling about that? [...] Moving to one's end through nature's own gentle process of dissolution - is there a better way of leaving life than that? Not because there is anything wrong with a sudden, violent departure, but because this gradual withdrawal is an easy route.

They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.

Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.

Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.

It is way more pleasurable to master yourself than it is to masturbate.

The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.