Stoicism quotes, with sources

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

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things…

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

You may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself can overpower.

Confine thyself to the present.

Loss is nothing else than change.

To recover thy life is in thy power.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Not death is evil, but a shameful death.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The present alone can make no man wretched.

Be your own spectator; seek your own applause.

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end.

What Chance has made yours is not really yours.

Never help came from anywhere but from yourself.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Of things some are in our power, and others are not.

While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will.

Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty.

Do not disturb thyself by thinking of the whole of thy life.

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

Suppose any man shall despise me. Let him look to that himself.

What others may say of you, regard as their concern, not yours.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

Aye, the willing soul Fate leads, but the unwilling drags along.

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

No servitude is more disgraceful than that which is self-imposed.

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

Is any man afraid of change? Why, what can take place without change?

That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.

Never say about anything, I have lost it, but say I have restored it.

My acceptance of the universe is not optimism, it is more like patriotism.

We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow.

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

I am not born for any one corner of the universe; this whole world is my country.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.

It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.

Make thyself all simplicity.

Life is not a dainty business.

That which is enough is ready to our hands.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself.

See to it that you never do anything unwillingly.

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark.

It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong.

Philosophy calls for plain living, but not for penance.

First, do nothing inconsiderately, nor without a purpose.

Whatever any man shall say about you, do not attend to it.

It was better to trip with the feet, than with the tongue.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish.

Nature’s wants are slight; the demands of opinion are boundless.

To a good man nothing is evil, neither while living nor when dead.

Where death waits for us is uncertain; let us look for him everywhere.

If pain can be conquered by a smile, will it not be conquered by reason?

Let us think of everything that can happen as something which will happen.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Have I done something for the general interest? Well then, I have had my reward.

Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition.

Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?