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Stoicism Quotes

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Will Durant
Civilization, Stoicism, Pleasure

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

Marcus Aurelius
Stoicism, Thrive, Feels
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.39, Modern Library

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Seneca the Younger
Positivity, Mind, Stoicism

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Emotion, Stoicism, Elimination

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

Seneca the Younger
Despair, Stoicism

He who despises life is his life's master.

Pierre Corneille
Life Is, Stoicism, Masters

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

Mary Catherwood
Endurance, Stoicism
Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.344, tredition

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

Mason Cooley
Stoicism, Behavior, Ifs

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

Richard J. Foster
Demand, Stoicism, Universe
Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Gertrude Atherton
Fundamentals, France, Stoicism

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