Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better.
Epictetus
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Seneca
People were so easily fooled. All you had to do was give them a reason to believe something and they would almost always do so.
Terry Brooks, The Last Druid
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, AZ Quotes
...life deals out unexpected joys and sorrows, and we can but treasure or suffer each.
Terry Brooks, The Last Druid
We are wrong to think that death is ahead of us. Much of our life has already passed. The years we have lived so far are in death's hands.
Seneca, Moral Letters 1
What has been need not always be.
The Witcher, The Witcher, s02e02
Excess in anything becomes a fault.
Seneca
Is this not the time when a man must take time to appreciate what he has?
Brandon Sanderson, Towers of Midnight
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem