Letters from a Stoic

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"True happiness is to enjoy your possessions without guilt."

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"Sincere friendship is not to be found in those who have much to gain."

"The mind is something too great to be shut up within one body."

"The only thing we truly possess is time."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"The purpose of education is freedom."

"Anger is a temporary madness."

"Do the difficult things while they are easy."

"The body is temporary, the mind eternal."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live."

"True greatness is simplicity."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"Just as it is madness to wear out the body by luxury, so too it is madness to waste the mind."

"Hope is the only good thing that is harmless."

"The greatest loss is not to lose a battle, but to lose faith in oneself."

"Deliberate often before action."

"A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself he is."

"The mind is the ruler of the body, and the will is its instrument."

"To have what we want is riches, but to be satisfied with what we have is wealth."

"You will die. Others have died. All will die."

"The greatest king must finally bow to death."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."