Quotes About Stoicism

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

Who can be patient in extremes?

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.