Stoicism quotes

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.