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

Apropos of which, Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

So in the field of assent you cannot be hindered or obstructed. 'Evidently.

I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?

impassivity and a good flow of life are not attained except through unerring desire and unfailing avoidance

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?

It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things.

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

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.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?

For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?