Inspirational Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Knows Motto Nature Stoic Stoicism
“The Stoic discovers the model for his virtuous conduct in studying the laws of nature; just as each object, plant, and animal serves its… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Stoics thought that a fundamental insight into human life is that some things are up to us and others are not, the famous… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“As social beings, it is in our relationships that we have most opportunity to flourish. Indeed, the Stoics argued that our own self-interest, as rational beings, happens to coincide with the wellbeing of others. We flourish as individuals by attaining the virtues of wisdom and justice, but these bring us into greater harmony with the rest of mankind. Animals naturally… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share
“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perceptions of things—rather than the things themselves—that cause most of our trouble. Stoicism teaches that we can’t control or rely on anything outside what Epictetus called our “reasoned choice”—our ability to use our reason to choose how… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“B.C.)—Stoicism stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty despite the apparent chaos of the external world by emulating in one’s personal conduct… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and then let… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Nature is capricious and teaches us not to conform ourselves in the belief that we know and that we can predict or even control.” — Maya Realm Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.” — Marcus Aurelius Stoicism” — Dominic Mann Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
