Stoic Words: Quotes to Rise and Grind To

When we were tasked with the job of collating our favourite quotes from the stoics we thought it would be amusing to just publish two blank pages as it might be more in line with what the Stoics were all about. In the end wordcounts won the day.
While most of the philosophy of the Stoics originate around 300 BC, we decided to include a few modern quotes that fit within the framework. Don’t let it bother you, the Stoics wouldn’t want that.

“Just because something is hard to master, do not think it is humanly impossible, but, if a thing is humanly possible, consider it within your reach.”
Marcus Aurelius

“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire.”
Epictetus

“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it”
Marcus Aurelius

“We suffer more often in our imagination than in reality”
Seneca

“Do not want for things to happen as you wish, wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will get on well.”
Epictetus

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Marcus Aurelius

“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”
Seneca

“What you leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Pericles

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Will Durant