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25​ Stoic Quotes To Get You Through The Week

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Sometimes, all we need in life is a good quote to get us through the day. Some days it'll be from our friends, parents, or professors, while other times it can come from complete strangers on the internet we don't know. In case you're in one of those times where you need a particularly stoic quote to help you out, check out these 25!

“If you want any good, get it from within.” - Epictetus

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius 

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” - Marcus Aurelius 

“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.” - Seneca

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” - Marcus Aurelius

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Remember thou must die.” - Epictetus“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” - Seneca

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” - Seneca

“Man is affected, not by events, but by the view he takes of them.” - Epictetus

“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.” - Epictetus

“You have power over your mind- not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you hoped for.” - Epicurus 

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond our power.” - Epictetus

“We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” - Marcus Aurelius 

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” - Seneca

“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent- no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” - Seneca

“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” - Epicurus 

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond our power.” - Epictetus

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” - Marcus Aurelius 

“Don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. What’s fated hangs over you. As long as you live and while you can, Bec one good now.” - Marcus Aurelius

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.” - Seneca

“He who is free in the body, but bound in the soul is a slave; but on the contrary he who is bound in the body, but free in the soul, is truly free.” - Epictetus

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” - Marcus Aurelius

“While we wait for life, life passes.” - Seneca

“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.” - Marcus Aurelius

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