Quotes about Stoicism
So decide now that you are worthy of living as a full-grown man who is making progress, and make everything that seems best be a law that you cannot go against. And if you meet with any hardship or anything pleasant or reputable or disreputable, then remember that the contest is now and the Olympic games are now and you cannot put things off any more and that your progress is made or destroyed by a single day and a single action
- Epictetus
Apropos of which, Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.
- Epictetus
So in the field of assent you cannot be hindered or obstructed. 'Evidently.
- Epictetus
I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?
- Epictetus
impassivity and a good flow of life are not attained except through unerring desire and unfailing avoidance
- Epictetus
No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it — or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?
- Epictetus
It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things.
- Epictetus
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. CXXIII
- Epictetus
19] 'My brother shouldn't have treated me in this way.' Indeed he shouldn't, but it's for him to see to that. For my part, however he treats me, I should conduct myself towards him as I ought. For that is my business, and the rest is not my concern. In this no one can hinder me, while everything else is subject to hindrance.
- Epictetus
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
- Pierre Corneille
FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson