Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. — Epictetus #stoic #wisdom #Epictetus

“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. — Musashi #RTF #StoicLife #UncompromisingTruth #Stoicism #StoicMindset #AncientWisdom #DailyPhilosophy #Stoic

“That to study philosophy is to learn to die.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Think how much is going on inside you every second—in your soul, in your body. Why should it astonish you that so much more—everything that happens in that all-embracing unity, the world—is happening at the same time?” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think — Aristotle #stoic #wisdom #Aristotle

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

And life itself told me this secret: Behold, it said, I am that which must overcome itself again and again. — Nietzsche #RTF #StoicLife #UncompromisingTruth #Stoicism #StoicMindset #AncientWisdom #DailyPhilosophy #Stoic

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom