Letters from a Stoic

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

"How does the wise man behave? Calmly and with restraint."

"The poor are not those who have little, but those who desire more."

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

"Patience is the greatest prayer."

"Better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."

"The day you stop learning is the day you stop living."

"Fate guides the willing, and drags along the unwilling."

"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."

"Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be."

"Nowhere is the one who thinks about his death."

"The obstacle is the way."

"He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact."

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"What is evil? Ignorance."

"True freedom is being your own master."

"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 is the test of a man's character."

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

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire."

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

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

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

"True happiness is to enjoy your present possessions, without wishing for what you have not."

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

"The brave man does not rush into conflict needlessly; he prepares with wisdom first."

"You have eternity in which to accomplish what you choose."