Stoicism Quotes

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it.”

“Begin the morning by saying to yourself: I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, the arrogant, the deceitful, the envious. But I cannot be harmed by any of them.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

Seneca

“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”

“Let us prepare our minds as if we'd come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing.”

Seneca

“I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.”

“Memento mori: remember that you must die.”

Latin Proverb

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.”

“Use plain discourse.”

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”