Stoic Wisdom: Quotes from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus & Seneca

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Confine yourself to the present.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

How does it help to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?

Confine yourself to the present.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

How does it help to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?

Confine yourself to the present.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

How does it help to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?