Letters from a Stoic

"You will live badly if you obey your passions; you will live well if you obey reason."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

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

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

"Our life is composed only of moments, but lost in always looking to the future."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

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

"Confusion and perplexity are the first steps to philosophy."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"You will derive the greatest delight from surrender to duty."

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

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

"Life is long if you know how to use it."

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

"True happiness is to enjoy your present possessions, without anxiety about the future."

"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."

"The man who allows himself to be ashamed of his poverty is poor indeed."

"Confine yourself to the present day."

"Nature has given you the gift of choice, but not freedom from choice."

"The soul is never voluntarily deprived of virtue."

"A man is not poor if the little which remains is enough."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"The great consolation in life is to say what you think."

"Misfortune nobly borne is good fortune."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"The greatest honor to a man is in service to his fellow man."

"Learn to wish that everything should happen as it does."

"Such is the condition of mankind that nowhere can we live in perfect peace."

"The best measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good."