Verified Stoic Quotes. Cited Sources.
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No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be one.
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A few to start with
Every quote on this site is in the app, with the same source.
“Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
“Other vices can be concealed and cherished in secret; anger shows itself openly and appears in the countenance, and the greater it is, the more plainly it boils forth.”
“Some things are in our power, and others are not.”
AI put this 1877 translation into today's English. Only the wording changed: each rewrite was checked against the original to keep its exact meaning.
“Of things some are in our power, and others are not.”
Translated by George Long, 1877
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