“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Quotes about stoicism
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“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”
“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
“Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.”
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”
“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”
“Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”
“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.”
“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?”