Stoic Wisdom
100 flashcards by MentisLibrary
One hundred passages from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus, plus Zeno and Cleanthes, each card naming the work it comes from and the theme it belongs to. Tagged by theme, from the dichotomy of control to mortality, anger, and time.
- You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- Marcus Aurelius
- The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
- Marcus Aurelius
- If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence and selfishness.
- Marcus Aurelius
- You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Confine yourself to the present.
- Marcus Aurelius
- The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
- Marcus Aurelius
- How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
- Marcus Aurelius
- The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Choose not to be harmed and you will not feel harmed. Do not feel harmed and you have not been.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Marcus Aurelius
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
- You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
- We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
- Seneca
- It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
- Seneca
- Life is long if you know how to use it.
- Seneca
- The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
- Seneca