Stoic Quotes: Selection and Context

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These selected lines from Stoic writers aren’t gathered to sound wise. They’re here because they keep working when circumstances don’t.

A strong quote doesn’t win an argument. It clears a small space in your thinking. Sometimes that feels stabilizing; sometimes it feels inconvenient, because it interrupts a story you’d rather keep.

This isn’t a wall of aphorisms. It’s a place for sentences that stay relevant precisely because they don’t flatter.

Some quotes settle you. Others irritate you into honesty.
Both can be useful—if you don’t turn them into decoration.