Stoic Virtue

To be and to have meaning are the same.

We can't learn without pain.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun.

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

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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.

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun.