“The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.”
Quotes about stoicism
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“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”
“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”
“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”
“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
“A great mind becomes a great fortune.”
“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
“Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.”
“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
“I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”
“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”
“Men exist for the sake of one another.”
“Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.”
“It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.”