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7,014	“Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.”	stoicism
7,015	“It is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.”	stoicism
7,016	“In a little while you too will close your eyes, and soon there will be others mourning the man who buries you.”	stoicism
7,017	“Though you should be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future, for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?”	stoicism
7,018	“A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path - he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it to him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.”	stoicism
7,019	“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”	stoicism
7,020	“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”	stoicism
7,021	“A cup with a broken handle can still handle its task.”	stoicism
7,022	“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”	stoicism
7,023	“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”	stoicism
7,024	“What right hast thou to talk of ill of Fortune whilst keeping all Fortune's better gifts?”	stoicism
7,025	“Nature is content with few things, and with a very little of these.”	stoicism
7,026	“At any moment we may be toppled from our perch and made to do with less—less money, less recognition, less access, less resources. Even the “less-es” that come with age: less mobility, less energy, less freedom. But we can prepare for that, in some way, by familiarizing ourselves with what that might feel like.”	stoicism
7,027	“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”	stoicism
7,028	“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”	stoicism
7,029	“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”	stoicism
7,030	“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”	stoicism
7,031	“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: "I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”	stoicism
7,032	“True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.”	stoicism
7,033	“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”	stoicism
7,034	“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”	stoicism
7,035	“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”	stoicism
7,036	“A better attitude towards life is better than a better life, and leads to a better life.”	stoicism
7,037	“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”	stoicism
7,038	“Remember you will die but do brave deeds and endure”	stoicism
7,039	“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoicism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”	stoicism
7,040	“Most adult geniuses are more playful than most children.”	stoicism
7,041	“Fools act wise, not wisely.”	stoicism
7,042	“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”	stoicism
7,043	“The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.”	stoicism
7,044	“Press on and make all your actions and words cohere and fit with one another, all struck from the same mold.”	stoicism
7,045	“If ever you want to find out whether anything has been achieved, observe whether your intentions are the same today as they were yesterday. A change of intention shows that the mind is at sea, drifting here and there as carried by the wind.”	stoicism
7,046	“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”	stoicism
7,047	“Count yourself fortunate when you are able to live in a manner open to the public—when walls are there for shelter, not for concealment. For as a rule we think we have walls around us not to protect us but to afford greater privacy to our misdeeds.”	stoicism
7,048	“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”	stoicism
7,049	“A charming enemy comes to me as a friend; faults creep in calling themselves virtues; temerity cloaks itself with the name of courage; cowardice gets called moderation; and timidity passes itself off as caution.”	stoicism
7,050	“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”	stoicism
7,051	“Most people frequently waste their life, mostly in front of a screen.”	stoicism
7,052	“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”	stoicism
7,053	“The first sign of a settled mind is that it can stay in one place and spend time with itself.” – Seneca, Letter 2.1”	stoicism
7,054	“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”	stoicism
7,055	“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”	stoicism
7,056	“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”	stoicism
7,057	“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”	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
7,059	“Paying someone to do something on our behalf is the closest we can get to buying time.”	stoicism
7,060	“We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.”	stoicism
7,061	“Being in a hurry gives us the illusion of doubling the length of every second.”	stoicism
7,062	“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”	stoicism
7,063	“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”	stoicism
7,064	“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”	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
7,066	“Every goal or desire is a seed of an excuse to be unhappy.”	stoicism
7,067	“The present moment is the entirety of reality.”	stoicism
7,068	“The passage of time is as real as the movement of an animated object.”	stoicism
7,069	“Life is not more kind, or less cruel, towards those who take it seriously.”	stoicism
7,070	“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”	stoicism
7,071	“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”	stoicism
7,072	“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”	stoicism
7,073	“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”	stoicism
7,074	“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”	stoicism
7,075	“We are often blind to the fact that our situation is not as bad as we think, until it gets worse.”	stoicism
7,076	“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”	stoicism
7,077	“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”	stoicism
7,078	“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”	stoicism
7,079	“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”	stoicism
7,080	“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”	stoicism
7,081	“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”	stoicism
7,082	“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”	stoicism
7,083	“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”	stoicism
7,084	“Whatever you're going through, there is wisdom from the stoics that can help. In fact, in many cases, they have addressed it explicitly in terms that feel shockingly modern.”	stoicism
7,085	“The goodness inside you is like a small flame, and you are its keeper. It’s your job, today and every day, to make sure that it has enough fuel, that it doesn’t get obstructed or snuffed out. Every person has their own version of the flame and is responsible for it, just as you are. If they all fail, the world will be much darker—that is something you don’t control. But so long as your flame flickers, there will be some light in the world.”	stoicism
7,086	“Capitalism is disgusted by those whose happiness is not a result of buying … or selling.”	stoicism
7,087	“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”	stoicism
7,088	“Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”	stoicism
7,089	“Conformity eats away individuality.”	stoicism
7,090	“Every life is a different path to death.”	stoicism
7,091	“For making a good voyage a pilot and wind are necessary: and for happiness, reason and art.”	stoicism
7,092	“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”	stoicism
7,093	“Our rationality is a visitor.”	stoicism
7,094	“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”	stoicism
7,095	“It is sometimes foolish to assume that someone is wise, or vice versa.”	stoicism
7,096	“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”	stoicism
7,097	“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”	stoicism
7,098	“We are food even before we are dead.”	stoicism
7,099	“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”	stoicism
7,100	“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being- and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners.”	stoicism
7,101	“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”	stoicism
7,102	“There is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.”	stoicism
7,103	“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”	stoicism
7,104	“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”	stoicism
7,105	“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”	stoicism
7,106	“Άριστος τρόπος τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι τὸ μὴ ἐξομοιοῦσθαι”	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
7,108	“When that which we are enjoying is a true good, we feel joy; when it is not, we feel, at best, pleasure.”	stoicism
7,109	“We get addicted, not to the substance, but to the effect.”	stoicism
7,110	“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”	stoicism
7,111	“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”	stoicism
7,112	“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”	stoicism
7,113	“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”	stoicism

7,014

“Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.”

stoicism

7,015

“It is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.”

stoicism

7,016

“In a little while you too will close your eyes, and soon there will be others mourning the man who buries you.”

stoicism

7,017

“Though you should be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future, for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?”

stoicism

7,018

“A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path - he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it to him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.”

stoicism

7,019

“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”

stoicism

7,020

“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”

stoicism

7,021

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

stoicism

7,022

“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”

stoicism

7,023

“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”

stoicism

7,024

“What right hast thou to talk of ill of Fortune whilst keeping all Fortune's better gifts?”

stoicism

7,025

“Nature is content with few things, and with a very little of these.”

stoicism

7,026

“At any moment we may be toppled from our perch and made to do with less—less money, less recognition, less access, less resources. Even the “less-es” that come with age: less mobility, less energy, less freedom. But we can prepare for that, in some way, by familiarizing ourselves with what that might feel like.”

stoicism

7,027

“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”

stoicism

7,028

“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”

stoicism

7,029

“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”

stoicism

7,030

“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”

stoicism

7,031

“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: "I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”

stoicism

7,032

“True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.”

stoicism

7,033

“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”

stoicism

7,034

“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”

stoicism

7,035

“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”

stoicism

7,036

“A better attitude towards life is better than a better life, and leads to a better life.”

stoicism

7,037

“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”

stoicism

7,038

“Remember you will die but do brave deeds and endure”

stoicism

7,039

“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoicism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”

stoicism

7,040

“Most adult geniuses are more playful than most children.”

stoicism

7,041

“Fools act wise, not wisely.”

stoicism

7,042

“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”

stoicism

7,043

“The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.”

stoicism

7,044

“Press on and make all your actions and words cohere and fit with one another, all struck from the same mold.”

stoicism

7,045

“If ever you want to find out whether anything has been achieved, observe whether your intentions are the same today as they were yesterday. A change of intention shows that the mind is at sea, drifting here and there as carried by the wind.”

stoicism

7,046

“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”

stoicism

7,047

“Count yourself fortunate when you are able to live in a manner open to the public—when walls are there for shelter, not for concealment. For as a rule we think we have walls around us not to protect us but to afford greater privacy to our misdeeds.”

stoicism

7,048

“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”

stoicism

7,049

“A charming enemy comes to me as a friend; faults creep in calling themselves virtues; temerity cloaks itself with the name of courage; cowardice gets called moderation; and timidity passes itself off as caution.”

stoicism

7,050

“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”

stoicism

7,051

“Most people frequently waste their life, mostly in front of a screen.”

stoicism

7,052

“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”

stoicism

7,053

“The first sign of a settled mind is that it can stay in one place and spend time with itself.” – Seneca, Letter 2.1”

stoicism

7,054

“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”

stoicism

7,055

“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”

stoicism

7,056

“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”

stoicism

7,057

“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”

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

7,059

“Paying someone to do something on our behalf is the closest we can get to buying time.”

stoicism

7,060

“We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.”

stoicism

7,061

“Being in a hurry gives us the illusion of doubling the length of every second.”

stoicism

7,062

“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”

stoicism

7,063

“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”

stoicism

7,064

“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”

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

7,066

“Every goal or desire is a seed of an excuse to be unhappy.”

stoicism

7,067

“The present moment is the entirety of reality.”

stoicism

7,068

“The passage of time is as real as the movement of an animated object.”

stoicism

7,069

“Life is not more kind, or less cruel, towards those who take it seriously.”

stoicism

7,070

“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”

stoicism

7,071

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

stoicism

7,072

“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”

stoicism

7,073

“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”

stoicism

7,074

“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”

stoicism

7,075

“We are often blind to the fact that our situation is not as bad as we think, until it gets worse.”

stoicism

7,076

“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

stoicism

7,077

“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”

stoicism

7,078

“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”

stoicism

7,079

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”

stoicism

7,080

“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”

stoicism

7,081

“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”

stoicism

7,082

“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”

stoicism

7,083

“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”

stoicism

7,084

“Whatever you're going through, there is wisdom from the stoics that can help. In fact, in many cases, they have addressed it explicitly in terms that feel shockingly modern.”

stoicism

7,085

“The goodness inside you is like a small flame, and you are its keeper. It’s your job, today and every day, to make sure that it has enough fuel, that it doesn’t get obstructed or snuffed out. Every person has their own version of the flame and is responsible for it, just as you are. If they all fail, the world will be much darker—that is something you don’t control. But so long as your flame flickers, there will be some light in the world.”

stoicism

7,086

“Capitalism is disgusted by those whose happiness is not a result of buying … or selling.”

stoicism

7,087

“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”

stoicism

7,088

“Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”

stoicism

7,089

“Conformity eats away individuality.”

stoicism

7,090

“Every life is a different path to death.”

stoicism

7,091

“For making a good voyage a pilot and wind are necessary: and for happiness, reason and art.”

stoicism

7,092

“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”

stoicism

7,093

“Our rationality is a visitor.”

stoicism

7,094

“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”

stoicism

7,095

“It is sometimes foolish to assume that someone is wise, or vice versa.”

stoicism

7,096

“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”

stoicism

7,097

“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”

stoicism

7,098

“We are food even before we are dead.”

stoicism

7,099

“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”

stoicism

7,100

“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being- and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners.”

stoicism

7,101

“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”

stoicism

7,102

“There is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.”

stoicism

7,103

“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”

stoicism

7,104

“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”

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7,105

“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”

stoicism

7,106

“Άριστος τρόπος τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι τὸ μὴ ἐξομοιοῦσθαι”

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

7,108

“When that which we are enjoying is a true good, we feel joy; when it is not, we feel, at best, pleasure.”

stoicism

7,109

“We get addicted, not to the substance, but to the effect.”

stoicism

7,110

“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”

stoicism

7,111

“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”

stoicism

7,112

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”

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7,113

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

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