Freedom is the only worthy goal in life.
— Epictetus
Discourses, Book 2
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11 quotes on life from the Stoic tradition.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life.
Discourses, Book 2
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
Meditations, Book 12
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Meditations, Book 4
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Meditations
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.
Meditations, Book 7
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love...
Meditations, Book 5
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter 77
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter 1
Life is long, if you know how to use it.
On the Shortness of Life, Chapter 2
We learn not in the school, but in life.
Letters from a Stoic, Letter 106
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
To Marcia on Consolation