The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness

by Jonas Salzgeber

“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius

“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.” – Seneca

“The goal which it assigns to us is to be useful, to help others, and to take care, not only of ourselves, but of everyone.”

“I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck.” – Zeno of Citium

“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca

"Just as there is no use in medical study unless it leads to the health of the human body, so there is no use to a philosophical doctrine unless it leads to the virtue of the human soul."

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.” – Marcus Aurelius

“A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.” – Seneca

“Find me a single man who cares how he does what he does, and is interested, not in what he can get, but in the manner of his own actions.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

Seneca said, “It is the mind that makes us rich; this goes with us into exile.”

“Let philosophy scrape off your own faults, rather than be a way to rail against the faults of others.” – Seneca.

“Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant,” as Seneca put it.

“The wise will start each day with the thought, ‘Fortune gives us nothing which we can really own.’ Nothing, whether public or private, is stable.”