It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book 12
Type to search Stoic quotes…
No quotes found. Try a different search.
↑↓ navigate · Enter select · Esc close
StoicQuotes
9 quotes on fear from the Stoic tradition.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Meditations, Book 12
He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.
On Tranquility of Mind, Chapter 11
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Letters from a Stoic
It is not that I am brave, but that I know what is not worth fearing.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter XXIV
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter XIII
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter XCVIII
There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter 13
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter 13
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter 3