Stoic Virtue

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

We can't learn without pain.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The journey is the thing.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Nothing endures but change.

Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.