“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Think how much is going on inside you every second—in your soul, in your body. Why should it astonish you that so much more—everything that happens in that all-embracing unity, the world—is happening at the same time?” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.” – Napoleon Bonaparte #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Two elements must therefore be rooted out once and for all, – the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Confine yourself to the present.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Reject your sense of injury, and the injury disappears.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“All things, says Plato, are produced either by nature, by fortune, or by art; the greatest and most beautiful by the one or the other of the former, the least and the most imperfect by the last.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“A stooped and hunched body has less strength to carry a burden. The same goes for our soul. It should be raised to stand against this adversary.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“He who is brave is free.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“I make no doubt but that I often happen to speak of things that are much better and more truly handled by those who are masters of the trade.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“All things, says Plato, are produced either by nature, by fortune, or by art; the greatest and most beautiful by the one or the other of the former, the least and the most imperfect by the last.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“With such short lives, why do we pull in so many directions?” – Horace #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom