Stoicism Quotations

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

He who despises life is his life's master.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.