Quotes About Stoicism

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us

Be not whirled aside; but in every impulse fulfil the claims of justice, and in every impression safeguard certainty.

Waste no time arguing what a good man should be; Be one.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you.

It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul, for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.

Uno se deleita en una cosa, el otro en otra. Pero yo me deleito en conservar sano mi principio rector, sin experimentar aversión por hombre alguno, ni por cosa alguna que acontezca a los hombres, antes bien mirándolo todo con buenos ojos, aceptando y usando de cada cosa según su merito.

This is the mark of a perfect character, to pass through each day as if it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, without pretence.

Borra los desvaríos de tus fantasías, repitiéndote sin cesar: pende de mi en este momento el que no haya en mi alma el menor vicio, deseo ni absolutamente ninguna agitación. Antes bien, veo todas las cosas como son y uso de cada una según su merito, No olvides esa facultad que te otorgo la naturaleza.

For if a man fix his mind upon certain things as really and unquestionably good, such as wisdom, temperance, justice, manliness, with this preconception in his mind he could no longer bear to listen to the poet's, By reason of his wealth of goods; for it would not apply. But, if a man first fix his mind upon the things which appear good to the multitude, he will listen and readily accept as aptly added the quotation from the Comic Poet.

If the choice rests with thee, why do the thing? if with another, whom dost thou blame? Atoms or Gods? To do either would be crazy folly. No one is to blame. For if thou canst, set the offender right. Failing that, at least set the thing itself right. If that too be impracticable, what purpose is served by imputing blame? For without a purpose nothing should be done.

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Dwell on thoughts that are in harmony with nature and her laws, and act accordingly. Don't let yourself be pulled off course by the insults or injuries of others. Let them go their way and you go yours, continuing on the path of reason. This is not selfish or antisocial on your part—far from it. Your individual reason is not opposed to the common good, but in harmony with it.

Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest. Ah, unlucky am I, that this has befallen me! No, but rather, lucky am I, that though this has befallen me, yet am I still unhurt, neither crushed by the present nor dreading the future.

Forget not in future, when anything would lead you to feel hurt, to take your stand upon this axiom: This is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Prvo - stvari ne mogu dirnuti um: one su izvanjske i nepomi?ne; strepnja može pote?i samo iz unutarnje prosudbe. Drugo, da se sve ono što vidiš mijenja još u trenutku dok to promatraš, i zatim nestaje. Neprekidno se podsje?aj da si se i ti, kakva si sebe vidio, ve? promojenio Univerzum je mijena - život je prosudba.

Moja loša sre?a kriva je što me to snašlo.-Ne, radije reci: Moja je sre?a, što, iako me to snašlo, mogu sve to otrpjeti bez patnje, da me sadašnjica ne zdrobi, i da ne strepim pred budu?noš?u.

Sudi o sebi sukladno svakoj rije?i ili djelu što su u skladu s prirodom i ne dopuštaj da te ikakve i i?ije zakašnjele kritike i uvjeravanja odvrate od toga .Ne, ako je to bilo dobro re?i ili u?initi, onda se ne odri?i vlastita prava. Te druge vodi njihov um i oni se pokoravaju vlastitim porivima. Neka te ništa takvo ne smeta, nastavi ravno naprijed i slijedi vlastitu prirodu kao i prirodu univerzuma - njih dvije kro?e jednom i istom stazom.

Što god itko u?ini ili kaže, ja moram biti dobar ?ovjek. Kao da smaragd, ili zlato, ili purpur, neprekidno govore: ''Što god itko u?ini ili kaže, moram biti smaragd i o?uvati vlastitu boju.

U svojim napadajima bijesa neka ti je ova misao pri ruci, jer je blagi spokoj daleko ljudskiji i stoga više muževan. Blagi posjeduju snagu, ?vrsto?u i hrabrost- ne oni uvrije?eni i pla?ljivi. Što je ?vrš?i nadzor nad emocijama, to si bliže mo?i. Gnjev je znak slabosti, jednako kao i patnja. Oboje su ranjeni, oboje su se predali.

For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.

It is not merriment and wantonness, nor laughter or jesting, the comrade of frivolity, that make men happy; those are happy, often in sadness, whose wills are strong and true.

non deterret sapientem mors.

I worked with Diodotus the Stoic, who made his residence in my house, and after a life of long intimacy died there only a short time ago.

Turpis autem fuga mortis omni est morte pejor.