"If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation." #stoicism #life #philosophy

"Every person is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time." #stoicism #life #philosophy

"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." #stoicism #life #philosophy

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them." #stoicism #life #philosophy