Stoicism Quotes

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.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

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

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

He who despises life is his life's master.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

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

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.