![]() While Zeno (334-262 BC) isn't quite as popular as Marcus Aurelius or Seneca (mostly to the lack of available teachings), he was the founder of the stoic school of philosophy in Athens around 300 BC. If you want something good, get it yourself.First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.It is difficulties that show what men are.Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.No man is free who is not master of himself.We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.His teachings were documented and published by one of his students named Arrian in two books - Discourses, and Enchiridion. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.Įpictetus (AD 50-135) was born a slave and lived in Rome until his banishment.For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.It does not matter how many books you have, but how good are the books which you have.Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.Difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms, you will be able to use them better when you are older.While we are postponing, life speeds by.Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool.Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.Life is long, if you know how to use it. ![]() We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.This book is another great source for stoic wisdom quotes. His book called Letters from a Stoic is one of my favorite books on stoicism, and is full of wisdom and lessons about morality. Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) was another prominent stoic philosopher in Rome, as had a unique position as the advisor to newly appointment Emperor Nero in 54. Consider at what price you sell your integrity, but please, for God’s sake, don’t sell it cheap.Settle on the type of person you want to be and stick to it, whether alone or in company.How trivial the things we want so passionately are.I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.Have I been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?.The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.Give yourself a gift, the present moment.Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be.You can commit injustice by doing nothing.When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.Realize this, and you will find strength. You have power over your mind – not outside events. ![]()
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