508 Quotes About Stoicism

Yes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore -In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure.

The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.

They did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there's an untouched man. If they came back now, and did everything to me again, they would never reach the untouched man. I've passed the exam I've been shirking all my life. I'm a graduate of pain.

The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.

Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.

[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.(Letter XVI)

Life is a game we are all bound to lose.

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

True affluence is not needing anything.