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7,225	“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”	stoicism
7,231	“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”	stoicism
7,496	“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”	stoicism
7,021	“A cup with a broken handle can still handle its task.”	stoicism
7,471	“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”	stoicism
7,065	“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”	stoicism
7,494	“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”	stoicism
7,489	“Having problems is not nearly as tormenting as being had by problems.”	stoicism
7,518	“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”	stoicism
7,107	“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”	stoicism
7,648	“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.”	stoicism
6,822	“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”	stoicism
7,561	“[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already. (Letter XVI)”	stoicism
6,986	“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”	stoicism
7,533	“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”	stoicism
6,957	“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”	stoicism
7,149	“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”	stoicism
7,262	“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”	stoicism
6,810	“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”	stoicism
6,926	“Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.”	stoicism
6,784	“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”	stoicism
7,582	“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”	stoicism
6,834	“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”	stoicism
7,626	“And here are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: they are external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgement. Second, hat all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed. The universe is change: life is judgement.”	stoicism
7,608	“They did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there's an untouched man. If they came back now, and did everything to me again, they would never reach the untouched man. I've passed the exam I've been shirking all my life. I'm a graduate of pain.”	stoicism
7,290	“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”	stoicism
7,113	“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”	stoicism
6,898	“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”	stoicism
7,417	“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”	stoicism
7,241	“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”	stoicism
6,832	“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”	stoicism
6,908	“Strive to articulate your wants loudly so they become interwoven with reality, more than thoughts.”	stoicism
7,268	“Be someone who is cool under pressure. Value serenity instead of outrage. It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here. If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn that the angriest, most passionate public figures are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences. Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance, reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom. The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making. As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion to pass for reason and factual debate.”	stoicism
7,362	“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”	stoicism
7,161	“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”	stoicism
7,444	“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”	stoicism
7,188	“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”	stoicism
7,058	“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”	stoicism
7,148	“Marcus wept when he was told that his favorite tutor had passed away. We know that he cried one day in court, when he was overseeing a case and the attorney mentioned the countless souls who perished in the plague still ravaging Rome. We can imagine Marcus cried many other times. This was a man who was betrayed by one of his most trusted generals. This was a man who one day lost his wife of thirty-five years. This was a man who lost eight children, including all but one of his sons. Marcus didn’t weep because he was weak. He didn’t weep because he was un-Stoic. He cried because he was human. Because these very painful experiences made him sad. “Neither philosophy nor empire,” Antoninus said sympathetically as he let his son sob, “takes away natural feeling.” So Marcus Aurelius must have lost his temper on occasion, or he never would have had cause to write in his Meditations.”	stoicism
7,542	“The size of your problem is in your mind.”	stoicism
7,259	“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”	stoicism
7,000	“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”	stoicism
6,810	“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”	stoicism
6,797	“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”	stoicism
6,904	“True focus requires wisdom in choosing the worthy target, courage in maintaining a resolute mind, and prudence in knowing when to exert effort and when to seek rest. Master these elements, and you begin to understand the nature of focus.”	stoicism
6,970	“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”	stoicism
7,609	“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”	stoicism
7,549	“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”	stoicism
6,802	“Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.”	stoicism
6,817	“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works. No one to my mind lets humanity down quite so much as those who study philosophy as if it were a sort of commercial skill and then proceed to live in a quite different manner from the way they tell other people to live.”	stoicism
7,272	“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”	stoicism
7,176	“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”	stoicism
7,343	“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”	stoicism
7,497	“The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die.”	stoicism
7,574	“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”	stoicism
6,868	“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”	stoicism
7,453	“We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.”	stoicism
7,641	“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”	stoicism
7,495	“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”	stoicism
7,316	“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”	stoicism
7,508	“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”	stoicism
7,382	“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”	stoicism
7,231	“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”	stoicism
7,412	“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”	stoicism
7,538	“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”	stoicism
6,774	“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”	stoicism
6,987	“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”	stoicism
7,272	“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”	stoicism
7,536	“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”	stoicism
7,167	“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”	stoicism
7,640	“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”	stoicism
7,564	“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”	stoicism
7,162	“Hunger is by far the best spice.”	stoicism
6,976	“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”	stoicism
6,784	“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”	stoicism
7,627	“The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.”	stoicism
7,323	“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”	stoicism
7,661	“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”	stoicism
7,230	“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”	stoicism
7,460	“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”	stoicism
7,344	“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”	stoicism
7,633	“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”	stoicism
7,512	“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”	stoicism
7,010	“Ill Fortune is of more use to men than Good Fortune.”	stoicism
7,333	“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”	stoicism
6,865	“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of "the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos"; second, the Stoic "feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness"; third, the Stoic "believes in the absolute value of the human person," a belief that is "at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'"; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration "on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world." 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of "a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”	stoicism
7,669	“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”	stoicism
7,503	“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”	stoicism
7,254	“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”	stoicism
7,176	“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”	stoicism
7,000	“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”	stoicism
7,518	“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”	stoicism
7,424	“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”	stoicism
6,940	“Tomorrow will arrive, come what may. The sun will rise, as it has always done, and will set in the evening when nature commands it.”	stoicism
7,310	“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”	stoicism
6,805	“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”	stoicism
7,294	“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”	stoicism
6,929	“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”	stoicism
7,608	“They did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there's an untouched man. If they came back now, and did everything to me again, they would never reach the untouched man. I've passed the exam I've been shirking all my life. I'm a graduate of pain.”	stoicism
7,468	“Optimism is an effort.”	stoicism

7,225

“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”

stoicism

7,231

“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”

stoicism

7,496

“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”

stoicism

7,021

“A cup with a broken handle can still handle its task.”

stoicism

7,471

“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”

stoicism

7,065

“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”

stoicism

7,494

“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”

stoicism

7,489

“Having problems is not nearly as tormenting as being had by problems.”

stoicism

7,518

“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”

stoicism

7,107

“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”

stoicism

7,648

“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.”

stoicism

6,822

“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”

stoicism

7,561

“[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already. (Letter XVI)”

stoicism

6,986

“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”

stoicism

7,533

“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”

stoicism

6,957

“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”

stoicism

7,149

“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”

stoicism

7,262

“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”

stoicism

6,810

“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”

stoicism

6,926

“Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.”

stoicism

6,784

“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”

stoicism

7,582

“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”

stoicism

6,834

“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”

stoicism

7,626

“And here are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: they are external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgement. Second, hat all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed. The universe is change: life is judgement.”

stoicism

7,608

“They did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there's an untouched man. If they came back now, and did everything to me again, they would never reach the untouched man. I've passed the exam I've been shirking all my life. I'm a graduate of pain.”

stoicism

7,290

“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”

stoicism

7,113

“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”

stoicism

6,898

“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”

stoicism

7,417

“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”

stoicism

7,241

“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”

stoicism

6,832

“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”

stoicism

6,908

“Strive to articulate your wants loudly so they become interwoven with reality, more than thoughts.”

stoicism

7,268

“Be someone who is cool under pressure. Value serenity instead of outrage. It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here. If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn that the angriest, most passionate public figures are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences. Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance, reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom. The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making. As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion to pass for reason and factual debate.”

stoicism

7,362

“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”

stoicism

7,161

“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”

stoicism

7,444

“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”

stoicism

7,188

“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”

stoicism

7,058

“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”

stoicism

7,148

“Marcus wept when he was told that his favorite tutor had passed away. We know that he cried one day in court, when he was overseeing a case and the attorney mentioned the countless souls who perished in the plague still ravaging Rome. We can imagine Marcus cried many other times. This was a man who was betrayed by one of his most trusted generals. This was a man who one day lost his wife of thirty-five years. This was a man who lost eight children, including all but one of his sons. Marcus didn’t weep because he was weak. He didn’t weep because he was un-Stoic. He cried because he was human. Because these very painful experiences made him sad. “Neither philosophy nor empire,” Antoninus said sympathetically as he let his son sob, “takes away natural feeling.” So Marcus Aurelius must have lost his temper on occasion, or he never would have had cause to write in his Meditations.”

stoicism

7,542

“The size of your problem is in your mind.”

stoicism

7,259

“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”

stoicism

7,000

“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”

stoicism

6,810

“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”

stoicism

6,797

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”

stoicism

6,904

“True focus requires wisdom in choosing the worthy target, courage in maintaining a resolute mind, and prudence in knowing when to exert effort and when to seek rest. Master these elements, and you begin to understand the nature of focus.”

stoicism

6,970

“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”

stoicism

7,609

“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”

stoicism

7,549

“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”

stoicism

6,802

“Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.”

stoicism

6,817

“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works. No one to my mind lets humanity down quite so much as those who study philosophy as if it were a sort of commercial skill and then proceed to live in a quite different manner from the way they tell other people to live.”

stoicism

7,272

“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”

stoicism

7,176

“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”

stoicism

7,343

“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”

stoicism

7,497

“The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die.”

stoicism

7,574

“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”

stoicism

6,868

“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”

stoicism

7,453

“We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.”

stoicism

7,641

“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”

stoicism

7,495

“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”

stoicism

7,316

“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”

stoicism

7,508

“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”

stoicism

7,382

“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”

stoicism

7,231

“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”

stoicism

7,412

“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”

stoicism

7,538

“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”

stoicism

6,774

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”

stoicism

6,987

“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”

stoicism

7,272

“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”

stoicism

7,536

“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”

stoicism

7,167

“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”

stoicism

7,640

“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”

stoicism

7,564

“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”

stoicism

7,162

“Hunger is by far the best spice.”

stoicism

6,976

“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”

stoicism

6,784

“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”

stoicism

7,627

“The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.”

stoicism

7,323

“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”

stoicism

7,661

“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”

stoicism

7,230

“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”

stoicism

7,460

“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”

stoicism

7,344

“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”

stoicism

7,633

“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”

stoicism

7,512

“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”

stoicism

7,010

“Ill Fortune is of more use to men than Good Fortune.”

stoicism

7,333

“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”

stoicism

6,865

“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of "the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos"; second, the Stoic "feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness"; third, the Stoic "believes in the absolute value of the human person," a belief that is "at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'"; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration "on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world." 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of "a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”

stoicism

7,669

“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”

stoicism

7,503

“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”

stoicism

7,254

“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”

stoicism

7,176

“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”

stoicism

7,000

“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”

stoicism

7,518

“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”

stoicism

7,424

“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”

stoicism

6,940

“Tomorrow will arrive, come what may. The sun will rise, as it has always done, and will set in the evening when nature commands it.”

stoicism

7,310

“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”

stoicism

6,805

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”

stoicism

7,294

“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”

stoicism

6,929

“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”

stoicism

7,608

“They did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there's an untouched man. If they came back now, and did everything to me again, they would never reach the untouched man. I've passed the exam I've been shirking all my life. I'm a graduate of pain.”

stoicism

7,468

“Optimism is an effort.”

stoicism