Quotes I've found interesting

A Stoic thinks, acts, and then accepts. They do not dream, expect and wait.  Because they are not entitled, naive children.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email, 12/9/2021

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

Don't just say that you have read books.  Show that through them you have learned to think better.

Epictetus  

No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

Marcus Aurelius  

If you’re going a thousand miles an hour, if you see everything as a problem to be solved, what kind of life is that? Especially in a world where time once past can never be recovered, where everything is so fleeting, it’s a terrible shame to waste it.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email, 3/31/2022

Excess in anything becomes a fault.

Seneca  

Undergo hardship voluntarily. Then, you will be better prepared for life’s involuntary hardships.

Unknown  

We do not find virtue in a man by the quality of his circumstances, but the quality of his actions.

Unknown  

Is this not the time when a man must take time to appreciate what he has?

Brandon Sanderson,   Towers of Midnight

You stand as you always have.  A good man does what he must.

Kore,   Spartacus, s04e10