grind

A stoic quotes CLI. Replaces fortune with 1,720 curated quotes from Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Cleanthes — embedded at compile time, zero dependencies at runtime.

Install

brew install warike/tools/grind

Or build from source:

go install github.com/warike/grind@latest

Usage

# Random quote
grind
# Filter by author
grind --author seneca
# Short quotes only (max 150 chars)
grind --short 150
# List available authors
grind --list-authors
# No ANSI colors
grind --no-color

Shell greeting

Add to your .zshrc or .bashrc:

grind --short 300

Dataset

1,720 deduplicated quotes sourced from Stoic Quotes by Tejas Nisar on Kaggle, originally scraped from Goodreads.

Author	Quotes
Seneca	746
Marcus Aurelius	672
Epictetus	301
Cleanthes	1

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Dataset is CC0 1.0 Universal.