let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow Nature, all is easy and unobstructed; but if we combat Nature, our life differs not a whit from that of men who row against the current. - #Seneca #Stoic

to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapour, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. - #MarcusAurelius #Stoic

There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility - #MarcusAurelius #Stoic

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then? - #Seneca #Stoic

If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only. - #Epictetus #Stoic

Believe me, it takes a great man and one who has risen far above human weaknesses not to allow any of his time to be filched from him, - #Seneca #Stoic

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. - #Seneca #Stoic

Start praying like this and you'll see. Not 'some way to sleep with her - #MarcusAurelius #Stoic

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised. - #MarcusAurelius #Stoic

The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die. - #Seneca #Stoic

Remember what Marcus Aurelius said:'Accept the things to which life binds you, and love the people with whom life brings you together, but do so with all your heart. - #MarcusAurelius #Stoic

If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable. - #Seneca #Stoic

One cannot sincerely weep over getting what one wanted. - #Seneca #Stoic

What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water? - #Seneca #Stoic

Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs. - #Seneca #Stoic

f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen. - #Seneca #Stoic

He that owns himself has lost nothing. But how few men are blessed with ownership of self! - #Seneca #Stoic

How unhappy are the lives of men! How purblind their hearts! - #Epicurus #Stoic

what is sweeter than to be so valued by one's wife that one becomes more valuable to oneself for this reason? Hence my dear Paulina is able to make me responsible, not only for her fears, but also for my own. - #Seneca #Stoic

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. - #MarcusAurelius #Stoic