Thread by @thestoicempire

~Thread of quotes~

1) I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. You’re not actually rich.

~ @naval

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2) If it doesn't harm your character, how can it harm your life?

~ Marcus Aurelius

3) Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

~ Socrates

4) No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. 

~ Pythagoras

5) Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

~ @jposhaughnessy

6) The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

~ Sun Tzu

7) There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

~ Alexander the Great

8) The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

~ Richard Feynman

9) A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

~ Charles Darwin

10) Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

11) When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.

~ @elonmusk

12) You should not honour men more than truth.

~ Plato

13) If there is something in nature you don’t understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.

~ @nntaleb

14) Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand whilst waiting to strike another.

~ Buddhaghosa

15) To offend a stupid person, attack their status.

To offend an intelligent person, waste their time.

~ The Stoic Empire

16) To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.

~ Charlie Munger

17) There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

18) There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

~ Buddha

19) Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

~ Epictetus

20) Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

~ Socrates

21) Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

22) If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

~ Mark Twain

23) If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

~ Buddha

24) Those who tell the stories rule society.

~ Plato

25) If you're going to be employed, make sure it's temporary.

~ @LifeMathMoney

26) The hallmark of independent thinking is disbelief in the fashionable religions of the day.

~ @naval

27) Don’t let people who hate you tell you what to do.

~ @TheStoicEmperor

28) Your library is the books you re-read.

Your mindset is the thoughts you recall.

Your life is the actions you repeat.

~ The Stoic Empire

29) Friends are the people who show up when the risk is greater than the reward.

~ @AscendantPower

30) Your neighbor's success is not your failure.

~ @Kpaxs

31) For greed, all of nature is too little.

~ Seneca

32) I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

~ Richard Feynman

33) It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.

~ Warren Buffet

34) We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

~ @nntaleb

35) To find yourself, think for yourself.

~ Socrates

36) Desire is a contract you make with yourself, to be unhappy until you get what you want.

~ @naval

37) Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

~ Marcus Aurelius

38) Society values the illusion of happiness (social media) over the real thing (internal peace).

Society values the illusion of wealth (debt) over the real thing (financial freedom).

Society values the illusion of character (status) over the real thing (internal reputation).

39) What I cannot create, I do not understand.

~ Richard Feynman

40) Accept everything just the way it is.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

41) Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

~ Buddha

42) Whether you think you can, or you think you can't -you're right.

~ Henry Ford

43) First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

~ Epictetus

44) Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

~ Pythagoras

45) When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.

~ Mathew 6: 1-4

46) Success tests humility. Failure tests mastery.

~ The Stoic Empire

47) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

~ Henry Ford

48) A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.

~ @naval

49) Never memorize something that you can look up.

~ Albert Einstein

50) He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

51) No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

~ Rudolph Kipling

52) All disturbances arise solely from the opinions within us.

~ Marcus Aurelius

A favourite of mine:

53) The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth.

~ @ScottAdamsSays

54) Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.

~ @naval

55) Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

~ Richard Feynman

56) Scarcity sharpens you. Abundance ruins you.

~ The Stoic Empire

57) No man was ever wise by chance.

~ Seneca

58) Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive.

~ @ScottAdamsSays

59) It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

~ Richard P. Feynman

60) Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

~ Buddha

61) Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

~ Charlie Munger

62) Upgrade your library, not your materialistic status.

~ The Stoic Empire

63) Those who tell the stories rule society.

~ Plato

64) Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

~ Seneca

65) If you want to be happy, teach your brain to see the truth in every situation.

~ The Stoic Empire

66) Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

~ Aristotle

67) Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you have won.

~ Charlie Munger

68) The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

~ Henry Ford

69) Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

~ Maya Angelou

70) The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~ Isaac Asimov

71) That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

~ Christopher Hitchens

72) If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

~ Isaac Newton

73) Time heals what reason cannot.

~ Seneca

74) Saying "I don't know" is a sign of intelligence.

~ The Stoic Empire

75) Your body and bank account are the physical and monetary manifestations of your vices and virtues.

~ @AscendantPower

76) Adapt what you do until you derive happiness from mere existence.

~ The Stoic Empire

77) From one thing, know ten thousand things.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

78) Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding.

~ @naval

79) Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.

~ @ScottAdamsSays

80) Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

~ Plato