Quotes about Stoicism

If we have been pleased with life ,we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.

The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.

pain may be inevitable but suffering is optional.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

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.