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7,114	“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”	stoicism
7,115	“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”	stoicism
7,116	“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions- not outside.”	stoicism
7,117	“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”	stoicism
7,118	“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”	stoicism
7,119	“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”	stoicism
7,120	“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.”	stoicism
7,121	“If being better is the surest way of feeling better, it must be better than feeling better.”	stoicism
7,122	“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”	stoicism
7,123	“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”	stoicism
7,124	“We almost never teach or learn when arguing.”	stoicism
7,125	“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”	stoicism
7,126	“Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.”	stoicism
7,127	“That we can change the shadow of an object without changing the object (by changing the position of the source of light) reminds us that we can change how we feel about a situation or person by changing only how we look at it or them.”	stoicism
7,128	“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”	stoicism
7,129	“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”	stoicism
7,130	“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”	stoicism
7,131	“Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.”	stoicism
7,132	“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”	stoicism
7,133	“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”	stoicism
7,134	“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”	stoicism
7,135	“We do things for others for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,136	“It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”	stoicism
7,137	“What is happening is life’s way of telling us what should be happening.”	stoicism
7,138	“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”	stoicism
7,139	“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”	stoicism
7,140	“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”	stoicism
7,141	“It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.”	stoicism
7,142	“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”	stoicism
7,143	“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”	stoicism
7,144	“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.”	stoicism
7,145	“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”	stoicism
7,146	“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”	stoicism
7,147	“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”	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
7,149	“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”	stoicism
7,150	“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”	stoicism
7,151	“Some real kings are drama queens.”	stoicism
7,152	“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live... it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”	stoicism
7,153	“No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair” does not even come close. It’s grotesque. How easily this could shatter a person, how easily and understandably it might cause them to toss away everything they ever believed, to hate a world that could be so cruel. Yet somehow we have Marcus Aurelius”	stoicism
7,154	“Hating our opponent benefits us. Underestimating them benefits them.”	stoicism
7,155	“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”	stoicism
7,156	“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”	stoicism
7,157	“A wise answer is even more pleasing when it is a response to a foolish question.”	stoicism
7,158	“Not everything that could have been done should have been done.”	stoicism
7,159	“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”	stoicism
7,160	“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so”	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
7,162	“Hunger is by far the best spice.”	stoicism
7,163	“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”	stoicism
7,164	“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”	stoicism
7,165	“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”	stoicism
7,166	“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”	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
7,168	“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”	stoicism
7,169	“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”	stoicism
7,170	“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”	stoicism
7,171	“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”	stoicism
7,172	“Some fools have children. Some have children who have children. And some have children who have children who have children.”	stoicism
7,173	“Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.”	stoicism
7,174	“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”	stoicism
7,175	“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”	stoicism
7,176	“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”	stoicism
7,177	“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”	stoicism
7,178	“Sometimes we want not freedom of choice, but freedom from choice.”	stoicism
7,179	“A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.”	stoicism
7,180	“Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”	stoicism
7,181	“Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.”	stoicism
7,182	“Happiness is sweet; its pursuit, bitter.”	stoicism
7,183	“We cannot be too young to die.”	stoicism
7,184	“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”	stoicism
7,185	“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”	stoicism
7,186	“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”	stoicism
7,187	“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”	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
7,189	“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”	stoicism
7,190	“Whenever an animal is overworking, a human is to blame.”	stoicism
7,191	“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”	stoicism
7,192	“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for wanting what you have not.”	stoicism
7,193	“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”	stoicism
7,194	“Take it to mind, not to heart.”	stoicism
7,195	“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”	stoicism
7,196	“Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?”	stoicism
7,197	“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”	stoicism
7,198	“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”	stoicism
7,199	“It is foolish to waste time in order to save money.”	stoicism
7,200	“No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyrants.”	stoicism
7,201	“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”	stoicism
7,202	“A book can be read to you, not for you.”	stoicism
7,203	“We are born old enough to die.”	stoicism
7,204	“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”	stoicism
7,205	“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”	stoicism
7,206	“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”	stoicism
7,207	“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”	stoicism
7,208	“Alcohol is the worst thing to mix with anger.”	stoicism
7,209	“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”	stoicism
7,210	“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”	stoicism
7,211	“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”	stoicism
7,212	“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”	stoicism
7,213	“Failing can ultimately be way more rewarding than succeeding.”	stoicism

7,114

“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”

stoicism

7,115

“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”

stoicism

7,116

“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions- not outside.”

stoicism

7,117

“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”

stoicism

7,118

“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”

stoicism

7,119

“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”

stoicism

7,120

“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.”

stoicism

7,121

“If being better is the surest way of feeling better, it must be better than feeling better.”

stoicism

7,122

“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”

stoicism

7,123

“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”

stoicism

7,124

“We almost never teach or learn when arguing.”

stoicism

7,125

“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”

stoicism

7,126

“Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.”

stoicism

7,127

“That we can change the shadow of an object without changing the object (by changing the position of the source of light) reminds us that we can change how we feel about a situation or person by changing only how we look at it or them.”

stoicism

7,128

“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”

stoicism

7,129

“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”

stoicism

7,130

“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”

stoicism

7,131

“Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.”

stoicism

7,132

“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”

stoicism

7,133

“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”

stoicism

7,134

“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”

stoicism

7,135

“We do things for others for ourselves.”

stoicism

7,136

“It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”

stoicism

7,137

“What is happening is life’s way of telling us what should be happening.”

stoicism

7,138

“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”

stoicism

7,139

“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”

stoicism

7,140

“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”

stoicism

7,141

“It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.”

stoicism

7,142

“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”

stoicism

7,143

“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”

stoicism

7,144

“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.”

stoicism

7,145

“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”

stoicism

7,146

“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”

stoicism

7,147

“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”

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

7,149

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

stoicism

7,150

“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”

stoicism

7,151

“Some real kings are drama queens.”

stoicism

7,152

“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live... it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”

stoicism

7,153

“No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair” does not even come close. It’s grotesque. How easily this could shatter a person, how easily and understandably it might cause them to toss away everything they ever believed, to hate a world that could be so cruel. Yet somehow we have Marcus Aurelius”

stoicism

7,154

“Hating our opponent benefits us. Underestimating them benefits them.”

stoicism

7,155

“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”

stoicism

7,156

“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”

stoicism

7,157

“A wise answer is even more pleasing when it is a response to a foolish question.”

stoicism

7,158

“Not everything that could have been done should have been done.”

stoicism

7,159

“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”

stoicism

7,160

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so”

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

7,162

“Hunger is by far the best spice.”

stoicism

7,163

“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”

stoicism

7,164

“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”

stoicism

7,165

“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”

stoicism

7,166

“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”

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

7,168

“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”

stoicism

7,169

“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”

stoicism

7,170

“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”

stoicism

7,171

“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”

stoicism

7,172

“Some fools have children. Some have children who have children. And some have children who have children who have children.”

stoicism

7,173

“Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.”

stoicism

7,174

“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”

stoicism

7,175

“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”

stoicism

7,176

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

stoicism

7,177

“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”

stoicism

7,178

“Sometimes we want not freedom of choice, but freedom from choice.”

stoicism

7,179

“A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.”

stoicism

7,180

“Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”

stoicism

7,181

“Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.”

stoicism

7,182

“Happiness is sweet; its pursuit, bitter.”

stoicism

7,183

“We cannot be too young to die.”

stoicism

7,184

“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”

stoicism

7,185

“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”

stoicism

7,186

“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”

stoicism

7,187

“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”

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

7,189

“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”

stoicism

7,190

“Whenever an animal is overworking, a human is to blame.”

stoicism

7,191

“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”

stoicism

7,192

“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for wanting what you have not.”

stoicism

7,193

“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”

stoicism

7,194

“Take it to mind, not to heart.”

stoicism

7,195

“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”

stoicism

7,196

“Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?”

stoicism

7,197

“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”

stoicism

7,198

“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”

stoicism

7,199

“It is foolish to waste time in order to save money.”

stoicism

7,200

“No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyrants.”

stoicism

7,201

“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”

stoicism

7,202

“A book can be read to you, not for you.”

stoicism

7,203

“We are born old enough to die.”

stoicism

7,204

“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”

stoicism

7,205

“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”

stoicism

7,206

“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”

stoicism

7,207

“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”

stoicism

7,208

“Alcohol is the worst thing to mix with anger.”

stoicism

7,209

“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”

stoicism

7,210

“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”

stoicism

7,211

“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”

stoicism

7,212

“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”

stoicism

7,213

“Failing can ultimately be way more rewarding than succeeding.”

stoicism