Quotes About Stoicism

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

Bukan kekurangan yang menyakitkan, tetapi menanggung rasa iri yang timbul dari angan-angan yang sia-sia.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?

Kiitosta ei pidä kerjätä ja itse meidän tulee kantaa vastuu elämämme parantamisesta.

Quando o prazer está presente, desde que seja ininterrupto, não há dor nem do corpo, nem da mente, nem de ambos ao mesmo tempo

A morte não é nada para nós, porque o corpo, quando está dissolvido nos seus elementos, não tem sentimento, e o que não tem sentimento não é nada para nós.

El futuro ni depende enteramente de nosotros ni tampoco nos es totalmente ajeno, de modo que no debemos esperarlo como si hubiera de venir infaliblemente ni tampoco desesperarnos como si no hubiera de venir nunca.

Nenhum prazer é em si mesmo mau, mas as coisas que produzem certos prazeres acarretam aborrecimentos muitas vezes maiores do que os próprios prazeres.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

It's a great thing learning how to die.

It is what it is

I think you're going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.' 'For what?' I asked. Nightingale hesitated. 'Quoting, mainly,' he said. 'And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.