Freedom? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Happiness? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.