The Stoic Citadel | Daily Quotes

“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Praise adds nothing to beauty – makes it neither better nor worse.” — Marcus Aurelius

“You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.” — Marcus Aurelius

“This is the mark of a perfect character – to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.” — Marcus Aurelius

“If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.” — Marcus Aurelius

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Look deeply. Don’t miss the inherent quality and value of everything.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” — Seneca

“Good luck frees many men from punishment, but no man from fear.” ― Epictetus

“The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Be confident in everything outside the will, and cautious in everything under the will’s control.” ― Epictetus

“Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.” — Marcus Aurelius

“The default mood of the busy man is misery. He lives a wretched existence. He walks with strangers in a world somewhere between love and hate.” — Seneca

“I will put you in chains.' What's that you say, friend? It's only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.” ― Epictetus

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” — Seneca

“It is enough if everyone does well what he or she is supposed to do.” ― Epictetus

“In the ashes all men are levelled.” — Seneca

“He who eats my bread, does my will.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.” — Marcus Aurelius