Isabella’s Reviews > Letters from a Stoic > Status Update

- Whatever happens is never as serious as rumor makes it out to be
- No one has power over us, when death is within our own power
- If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you are needing is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person

- Everything hangs on one’s thinking
- A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is
- Philosophy has taught men to worship what is divine, to love what is human

- Whatever can happen at any time can happen today
- I am not afraid of coming to an end, this being the same as never having begun, nor a transition. For I shall never be in confinement quite so cramped anywhere else, as I am here.

- You’ve as many enemies as you’ve slaves
- Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness
- The fact that a person is living for nobody does not automatically mean that he is living for himself
- In our tears we are trying to find means of proving that we feel the loss. We are not being governed by our grief, but parading it

- A sound mind can neither be bought or borrowed
- I wasn’t born for one particular corner, the whole world’s my home country
- The thing you are looking for, the good life, is available everywhere

- Without wisdom, the mind is sick

- If you wish to be loved, love

- Nothing, however outstanding and however hopeful, will ever give me any pleasure if knowledge is to be for my benefit alone
- What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend! That is progress indeed, such a person will never be alone
- Associate with people who are likely to improve you
- Men learn as they teach
- Each of us is audience enough for the other
- Your merits should not be outward facing

- Why should I keep back anything when I’m with a friend?
- Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement
- The simple way of live need not be a crude one
- No one confines his unhappiness to the present