shayaun-nejad/stoic-quotes

An app that dispenses Stoic wisdom with bite-size quotes.

Stoic Quotes

A simple app that displays random Stoic quotes from Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus.

stoic-quotes.com

Please feel free to make a pull request if you want to add your favourite Stoic quote to the app 🙂

Using the API

This app exposes a public API which you are free to use to fetch random Stoic quotes for use in your own applications.

Endpoints

Get a random Stoic quote

GET https://stoic-quotes.com/api/quote

Example JSON response

{
  "text": "All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.",
  "author": "Marcus Aurelius"
}

Get a list of random Stoic quotes

GET https://stoic-quotes.com/api/quotes

Optionally pass in a num param to change the number of quotes returned. num defaults to 10, and can not be higher than 100.

GET https://stoic-quotes.com/api/quotes?num=10

Example JSON response

[
  {
    "text": "All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.",
    "author": "Marcus Aurelius"
  },
  {
    "text": "If it doesn't harm your character, how can it harm your life?",
    "author": "Marcus Aurelius"
  }
]