Quotes About Stoicism

For the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed. The divine ruling principle makes all things work together for good, but for the good of the whole. The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature. In the individual it is virtue alone which enables him to do this; as Providence rules the universe, so virtue in the soul must rule man.

Human lives are brief and trivial. Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash. To pass through this brief life as nature demands. To give it upwithout complaint. Like an olive that ripens and falls. Praising its mother, thanking the tree it grew on.

I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things that have rambled and know not the way.

B.C.)—Stoicism stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty despite the apparent chaos of the external world by emulating in one's personal conduct the underlying orderliness and lawfulness of nature.

things: and the vanity of praise, and the inconstancy

Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.

Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.

Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option: to accept this event with humility [will]; to treat this person as he should be treated [action]; to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in [perception].

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

Menjalani kehidupan setiap harinya seolah - olah hari itu adalah hari terakhir, tidak pernah mengalami kebingungan, tidak pernah bersikap apatis, tidak pernah latah untuk ikut - ikutan, itu semua adalah karakter sempurna

If within the power of another, whom do you blame—atoms or gods? To do either is folly.

The thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Confine desire and aversions to things in one's power.

The things which are ex­ternal to my mind have no re­la­tion at all to my mind.

I am unhappy, because this has happened to me." Not so: say, "I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.

Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else could you wish for?

Let not the general representation unto thyself of the wretchedness of this our mortal life, trouble thee.

X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.

Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands.

The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from a learned sage. Virtue is virtue, and in both cases the result is happiness for the one who is virtuous.