“It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🧘 Insight from Marcus Aurelius: “Look inward. Don’t let the true nature or value of anything elude you.”

🌀 Perspective from Montaigne: “A stooped and hunched body has less strength to carry a burden. The same goes for our soul. It should be raised to stand against this adversary.”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“We live in the midst of things destined to die.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🏛️ Philosophy from Seneca: “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

“I make no doubt but that I often happen to speak of things that are much better and more truly handled by those who are masters of the trade.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🏛️ Philosophy from Seneca: “He who is brave is free.”

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🗣️ In the words of Seneca: “A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”

🗣️ In the words of Epictetus: “I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“If you’ve seen the present, then you’ve seen everything—as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

📖 Teachings of Seneca: “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”

“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

💡 Reflection by Zeno: “If you lay violent hands on me, you’ll have my body, but my mind will remain with Stilpo.”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

⏳ Timeless insight by Zeno: “Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.”

🧱 Foundation from Marcus Tullius Cicero: “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“That to study philosophy is to learn to die.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🔥 Enduring wisdom from Seneca: “The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.”

“Be like the cliff against which the waves break.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🧱 Foundation from Epictetus: “Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?”

🧱 Foundation from Seneca: “The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.”

“On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

💡 Reflection by Marcus Aurelius: “Don't be overheard complaining to anyone, even yourself.”

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🧘 Insight from Seneca: “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

🗣️ In the words of Seneca: “We live in the midst of things destined to die.”

“Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🌀 Perspective from Epictetus: “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

“And life itself: like the decoction of blood, the drawing in of air. We expel the power of breathing we drew in at birth (just yesterday or the day before), breathing it out like the air we exhale at each moment.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🌿 Stillness in Epictetus's words: “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🕊️ Calm wisdom from Epictetus: “It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

🌿 Stillness in Marcus Aurelius's words: “Reject your sense of injury, and the injury disappears.”

“The best revenge is not to be like that.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

⏳ Timeless insight by Seneca: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🕊️ Calm wisdom from Seneca: “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”

“All things, says Plato, are produced either by nature, by fortune, or by art; the greatest and most beautiful by the one or the other of the former, the least and the most imperfect by the last.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🏛️ Philosophy from Marcus Aurelius: “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”

🏛️ Philosophy from Montaigne: “I make no doubt but that I often happen to speak of things that are much better and more truly handled by those who are masters of the trade.”

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

⏳ Timeless insight by Marcus Aurelius: “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”