“We learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture room.”
Stoic Quotes · Page 4
Embrace the ancient philosophy of Stoicism with powerful quotes from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca. Learn to focus on what you control and find peace in any circumstance.
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“We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.”
“A good judge condemns wrongful acts, but does not hate them.”
“He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.”
“Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
“To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.”
“Materials are indifferent, but the use which we make of them is not a matter of indifference.”
“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”
“It was for this that I've been training myself, it was for this that I was practising.”
“Do you suppose that you can do the things you do now, and yet be a philosopher?”
“Little is needed to ruin and upset everything, only a slight aberration from reason.”
“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”
“If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry.”
“Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.”