Daily Stoic 🗿No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.
— Zeno of Citum
Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible
— Zeno of Citum
No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for it’s irretrievable.
— Zeno of Citum
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.
— Zeno of Citum
No one entrusts a secret to a drunken man; but one will entrust a secret to a good man; therefore, the good man will not get drunk.
— Zeno of Citum
When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.
— Zeno of Citum
Nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception
— Zeno of Citum
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
— Zeno of Citum
A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
— Zeno of Citum
Daily Stoic 🗿Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself
— Zeno of Citum