Stoic quotes
Quotations from the Stoics and from writers who share their questions: what we control, how to meet misfortune, how to spend a limited life. Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus wrote in Greek and Latin, so each entry names the translation it uses. The internet credits them with many lines they never wrote.
If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgement about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgement now.
Men are disturbed, not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.
Nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.
Of things some are in our power, and others are not.
Set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands.
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong doer.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.