Quotes from the Forum
📜 Sharing daily Stoic wisdom. Quotes from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, and more.
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- 🌿 Stillness in Montaigne's words: “And if you have lived a day, you have seen everything. One day equals any other day. There is no other daytime, no other nighttime. This sun, this moon, these stars, this constellation, they are the very same ones your ancestors enjoyed and the same ones that wil
- “If you live in harmony with nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🧱 Foundation from Montaigne: “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.”
- 🧭 Guidance by Marcus Aurelius: “So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.”
- “Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🕊️ Calm wisdom from Emperor Augustus: “Make haste slowly.”
- 🕊️ Calm wisdom from Marcus Aurelius: “Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms.”
- “You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🌿 Stillness in Seneca's words: “If you live in harmony with nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.”
- 🧱 Foundation from Montaigne: “And if you have lived a day, you have seen everything. One day equals any other day. There is no other daytime, no other nighttime. This sun, this moon, these stars, this constellation, they are the very same ones your ancestors enjoyed and the same ones that will sus
- “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- “Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🧘 Insight from Horace: “With such short lives, why do we pull in so many directions?”
- “How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🔥 Enduring wisdom from Epictetus: “I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”
- “When you start to lose your temper, remember: There’s nothing manly about rage. It’s courtesy and kindness that define a human being and a man.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🧱 Foundation from Seneca: “We live in the midst of things destined to die.”
- 🏛️ Philosophy from Marcus Aurelius: “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
- “Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- “If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🗣️ In the words of Seneca: “Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
- “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- ⏳ Timeless insight by Seneca: “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
- “God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🌿 Stillness in Seneca's words: “If you live in harmony with nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.”
- 🔥 Enduring wisdom from Seneca: “A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”
- “I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🗣️ In the words of Marcus Aurelius: “You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
- “Reject your sense of injury, and the injury disappears.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🧘 Insight from Seneca: “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
- 🕊️ Calm wisdom from Seneca: “Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.”
- 🏛️ Philosophy from Epictetus: “Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
- “Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🕊️ Calm wisdom from Seneca: “If you live in harmony with nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.”
- “Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🔥 Enduring wisdom from Marcus Aurelius: “So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.”
- “If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🔥 Enduring wisdom from Napoleon Bonaparte: “Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
- 💡 Reflection by Seneca: “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.”
- “Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 🌿 Stillness in Epictetus's words: “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
- “You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
- 💡 Reflection by Montaigne: “That to study philosophy is to learn to die.”
