Quotes About Stoicism

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

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

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial