Stoicism Quotes

"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current."

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

"Never say of anything, 'I have lost it'; but, 'I have returned it.'"

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

“Some things are in our control and others not.”

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

"You will cease to fear if you cease to hope."

Seneca

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“It is not things that disturb us, but our judgements about things.”

“Cease to hope, and you will cease to fear.”

Seneca

“Some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all.”

Seneca

“Fear keeps pace with hope.”

Seneca

“He who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”

Seneca

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

“Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to hope or fear.”

Seneca

“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.”

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

Seneca

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.”

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”