Stoic Virtue

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

We can't learn without pain.

Withdraw into yourself and look.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

There is nothing permanent except change.