Stoicism Quotes

At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the ...

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on...

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is ...

But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are h...

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, ...

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

"If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to opinions, you will never b...

"Nothing is ours, except time."

"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every ma...

"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself."

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man."

Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts,...

In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns ...

Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exe...

True affluence is not needing anything.

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and...

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marian...

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to ...

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...

When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shameles...

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unre...

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay u...

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what ...

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to...

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason ...

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his...