Stoic Quotes on
Memento Mori

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Seneca

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.

Epictetus

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.

Epictetus

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy