Why I am a Stoic Quotes

“It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself for difficult times.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappinness to the present.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Death is not an evil.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for whatever he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“One shouldn't, accordingly, eat until hunger demands.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and how nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“So long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to harass and plague you wherever you wander on land or on sea.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“We must spend time in study and in the writings of wise men, to learn the truths that have emerged from their researches, and carry on the search ourselves for the answers that have not yet been discovered.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“To lose someone you love is something you'll regard as the hardest of all blows to bear, while all the time this will be as silly as crying because the leaves fall from the beautiful trees that add to the charm of your home.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Death you'll think of as the worst of all bad things, though in fact there's nothing bad about it at all except the thing which comes before it - the fear of it.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“What a blessing it would be for some people if they could only lose themselves!”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“We're born unequal, we die equal.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Time adds nothing to the finer things in life.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Besides, if you meet sickness in a sensible manner, do you really think you are achieving nothing? You will be demonstrating that even if one cannot always beat it one can always bear an illness.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Everything hangs on one's thinking.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“A man of noble and enlightened character separates separates body from spirit.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“It was my stoic studies that really saved me. For the fact that I was able to leave my bed and was restored to health I give the credit to philosophy.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“There are times when even to live is an act of bravery.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“The fact that a person is living for nobody does not automatically mean that he is living for himself.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“The philosopher alone knows how to live for himself: he is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing, how to live.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Death is just not being.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“There is one thing, too, in which the wise man actually surpasses any god: a god has nature to thank for his immunity from fear, while the wise man can thank his own efforts on this.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“But only philosophy will wake us; only philosophy will shake us out of that heavy sleep. Devote yourself entirely to her. You're worthy of her, she's worthy of you - fall into eachother's arms.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“It is one thing, however, to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to your memory, whereas to know, by contrast, is actually to make each item your own, and not to be dependent on some original and be constantly looking to see what the master said.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“Produce something from your own resources.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“The thing you are looking for, the good life, is available everywhere.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic

“The outcome of violent anger is a mental raving, and therefore anger is to be avoided not for the sake of moderation but for the sake of sanity.”
― Seneca, Why I am a Stoic