Test your knowledge of famous stoic quotes with this challenging quiz. Can you guess who said these iconic words? Find out now!
1. Who said: 'Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.'?
Marcus Aurelius
Seneca
Epictetus
Zeno of Citium
2. Who said: 'We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.'?
Marcus Aurelius
Seneca
Epictetus
Zeno of Citium
3. Who said: 'It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.'?
Zeno of Citium
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
Seneca
4. Who said: 'The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.'?
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
Zeno of Citium
5. Who said: 'He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.'?
Epictetus
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
Zeno of Citium
6. Who said: 'You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.'?
Epictetus
Seneca
Zeno of Citium
Marcus Aurelius
7. Who said: 'People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.'?
Epictetus
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
Zeno of Citium
8. Who said: 'To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.'?
Gaius Musonius Rufus
Seneca
Epictetus
Zeno of Citium
9. Who said: 'fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.'?
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
Zeno of Citium
10. Who said: 'Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our actions.'?
