Stoic Wisdom

“Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

— Epictetus

“Lead me, Zeus, and you too, Destiny, to wherever your decrees have assigned me.”

— Cleanthes

“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.”

— Leo Tolstoy