Stoicism Quotes
15 quotes
Stoicism
Ancient Philosophy Emphasizing Self-Control & Virtue
15 Quotes
We suffer not from the events in our lives, but from our judgment about them
— Discourses, Book I
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character
— Nicomachean Ethics, Book II
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control
— Discourses, Book IV
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
— Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them
— Meditations, Book VII
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
— Discourses, Book I
No thing great is created suddenly
— Discourses, Book I
Man conquers the world by conquering himself
— As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor
— Letters to Lucilius, Letter II
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them, and it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
— Meditations, Book VIII
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for
— Letter to Menoeceus
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality
— Moral Essays
It is not things themselves that disturb us, but our opinions about them.
— Enchiridion, Section 5
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how
— Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows
To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
— Meditations, Book XI