The Stoic Body Quotes

“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labour passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.” – Musonius Rufus”
― Philip Ghezelbash, The Stoic Body: An Ancient Twist To Modern Health

“Our motto, as you know, is ‘live according to nature’; but it is quite contrary to nature to torture the body, to hate unlaboured elegance, to be dirty on purpose, to eat food that is not only plain, but disgusting and forbidding.” –”
― Philip Ghezelbash, The Stoic Body: An Ancient Twist To Modern Health