Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
Decisions are made and consequences follow, it is the way. Our task is to deal with the present.
King Alfred, The Last Kingdom, s02e06
What has been need not always be.
The Witcher, The Witcher, s02e02
You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
Marcus Aurelius
Deliberately designing one’s life isn’t only possible. It’s imperative.
@intentionally, Twitter
Life without design is erratic.
Seneca
This is what you deserve. You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow.
Marcus Aurelius, @dailystoic
No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.
Marcus Aurelius
Excess in anything becomes a fault.
Seneca
When your efforts are not directed at a cause or a purpose, how will you know what to do day in and day out? How will you know what to say no to and what to say yes to? How will you know when you’ve had enough, when you’ve reached your goal, when you’ve gotten off track, if you’ve never defined what those things are?
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic