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The Greatest Quotes of Ancient Greece’s Stoic Philosophers

The Greatest Quotes of Ancient Greece’s Stoic Philosophers

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

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SENECA

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

SENECA

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MARCUS AURELIUS

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

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.”

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“To live a good life; we all have the potential for it, if we learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.”

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.”

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?”

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

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MARCUS AURELIUS

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.”

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SENECA

“It is not because things are difficult that we don’t dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

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SENECA

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

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SENECA

“The bravest sight in the world is to see a man struggling against adversity.”

SENECA

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SENECA

“Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

SENECA

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SENECA

“Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.”

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EPICTETUS

“Man is affected not by events, but by the view he takes of them.”

EPICTETUS

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SENECA

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

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SENECA

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”

SENECA

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SENECA

“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”

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SENECA

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

SENECA

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SENECA

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

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EPICTETUS

“If you want to improve, be content to be foolish and stupid.”

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EPICTETUS

“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”

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EPICTETUS

“Seek not the good in eternal things, seek it in yourselves.”

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EPICTETUS

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

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EPICTETUS

“No man is free who is not a master of himself.”

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EPICTETUS

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”

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EPICTETUS

“Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source.”

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