508 Quotes About Stoicism
- Author Seneca
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You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.
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- Author Seneca
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The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.
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- Author Seneca
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The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever has said, "I have lived' receives a windfall every day he gets up in the morning.
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- Author Seneca
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All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.
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- Author Epictetus
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Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.
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- Author Tove Jansson
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Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now.""Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!
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- Author Epictetus
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Sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.
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- Author Seneca
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Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.
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- Author Marcus Aurelius
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Whatever happens, happens such as you are either formed by nature able to bear it, or not able to bear it. If such as you are by nature form’d able to bear, bear it and fret not: But if such as you are not naturally able to bear, don’t fret; for when it has consum’d you, itself will perish. Remember, however, you are by nature form’d able to bear whatever it is in the power of your own opinion to make supportable or tolerable, according as you conceive it advantageous, or your duty, to do so.
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