“People use to tell me that business administration is for the practical life and philosophy is for the spirit. Through the years I found it is exactly the opposite–I used philosophy much more practically. Philosophers that spoke about how to balance, how to prioritize principles in a right way...Thi…”— General Halevi, nytimes.com
“External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight? And if it's that you're not doing something you think you should be, why not just do it? –But there…”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“It is a tragedy to go to jail, especially a white man's jail...[But while there] you can sit down when everyone else is asleep and distance yourself from yourself and discover how you have behaved. Some of the things I discovered made me ashamed. I was convinced I did not belong to this human race.”— Nelson Mandela, nola.com
“[Cato] took from stoicism that which it had to offer but he learned to speak from the masters of speaking and trained himself in their methods.”— Cicero, amazon.com
“Nearly all the successors of Alexander we may say all the principal kings in existence in the generations following Zeno professed themselves Stoics”— Betrand Russell, amazon.com