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7,414	“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”	stoicism
7,415	“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: "What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”	stoicism
7,416	“To lose someone you love is something you'll regard as the hardest of all blows to bear, while all the time this will be as silly as crying because the leaves fall from the beautiful trees that add to the charm of your home. [...] At one moment chance will carry off one of them, at another moment another; but the falling of the leaves is not difficult to bear, since they grow again, and it is no more hard to bear the loss of those whom you love and regard as brightening your existence; for even if they do not grow again they are replaced. "But their successors will never be quite the same." No, and neither will you.”	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
7,418	“People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.”	stoicism
7,419	“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice”	stoicism
7,420	“[T]he man who lives extravagantly wants his manner of living to be on everybody's lips as long as he is alive. He thinks he is wasting his time if he is not being talked about.”	stoicism
7,421	“Один из главных принципов стоицизма состоит в умении различать вещи, которыми мы можем управлять и которыми — нет.”	stoicism
7,422	“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”	stoicism
7,423	“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”	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
7,425	“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”	stoicism
7,426	“If you admit to having derived great pleasures, your duty is not to complain about what has been taken away but to be thankful for what you have been given.”	stoicism
7,427	“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”	stoicism
7,428	“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”	stoicism
7,429	“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”	stoicism
7,430	“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”	stoicism
7,431	“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”	stoicism
7,432	“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”	stoicism
7,433	“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”	stoicism
7,434	“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”	stoicism
7,435	“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”	stoicism
7,436	“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”	stoicism
7,437	“Even in the longest life real living is the least portion thereof.”	stoicism
7,438	“Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teaching. And to have seen someone who clearly viewed his expertise and ability as a teacher as the humblest of virtues. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. On Apolonius”	stoicism
7,439	“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”	stoicism
7,440	“[C]ling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always take full not of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do.”	stoicism
7,441	“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”	stoicism
7,442	“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”	stoicism
7,443	“It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.”	stoicism
7,444	“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”	stoicism
7,445	“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”	stoicism
7,446	“For a life spent viewing all the variety, the majesty, the sublimity in things around us can never succumb to ennui: the feeling that one is tired of being, of existing, is usually the result of an idle and inactive leisure.”	stoicism
7,447	“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”	stoicism
7,448	“I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.”	stoicism
7,449	“If a discrepancy exists between supply and demand, then for the Stoics the prescription for a happy life was to decrease demand, not to increase supply (or production), which the Hedonists saw as the prescription for a happy life.”	stoicism
7,450	“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”	stoicism
7,451	“Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, “This is an accident of mortality.” But if anyone’s own child happens to die, it is immediately, “Alas! how wretched am I!” It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.”	stoicism
7,452	“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”	stoicism
7,453	“We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.”	stoicism
7,454	“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”	stoicism
7,455	“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”	stoicism
7,456	“It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.”	stoicism
7,457	“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”	stoicism
7,458	“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”	stoicism
7,459	“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”	stoicism
7,460	“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”	stoicism
7,461	“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”	stoicism
7,462	“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”	stoicism
7,463	“Change: nothing inherently bad in the process, nothing inherently good in the result.”	stoicism
7,464	“When pain comes, it must not derail you from your set virtues. If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”	stoicism
7,465	“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”	stoicism
7,466	“The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.”	stoicism
7,467	“It takes patience to nurture patience.”	stoicism
7,468	“Optimism is an effort.”	stoicism
7,469	“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”	stoicism
7,470	“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”	stoicism
7,471	“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”	stoicism
7,472	“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”	stoicism
7,473	“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”	stoicism
7,474	“Pretty much all wealthy people who were willing to lose and have lost their health while chasing wealth are now willing to lose their wealth while chasing health.”	stoicism
7,475	“We are forever getting closer to the dreaded moment that will finally confirm that we will not live forever.”	stoicism
7,476	“The qualities of stoic self-denial, self-sacrifice for others, patient labour, expiation for past error, willing acceptance of the burdens of life, were for him nobler manifestations of humanity than ostentatious feats of bravery, death-defying deeds of heroism or a life ruled by passions. He was persuaded that moral strength could best be displayed by silent endurance rather than by vehement anger and passionate rebellion.”	stoicism
7,477	“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”	stoicism
7,478	“Every second is a step away from our mothers’ wombs towards our own tombs.”	stoicism
7,479	“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”	stoicism
7,480	“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”	stoicism
7,481	“...when I asked him if he forgave me, he answered that he was not in the habit of cherishing the remembrance of vexation; that he had nothing to forgive; not having been offended.”	stoicism
7,482	“We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.”	stoicism
7,483	“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”	stoicism
7,484	“If you lose today every-day, you are lost every-day.”	stoicism
7,485	“Tomorrow will take care of itself, so take care of today, otherwise tomorrow will take ill-care of you today – thus losing today.”	stoicism
7,486	“Tomorrow’s worries contaminate the present.”	stoicism
7,487	“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”	stoicism
7,488	“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.”	stoicism
7,489	“Having problems is not nearly as tormenting as being had by problems.”	stoicism
7,490	“Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.”	stoicism
7,491	“Unlike existing, living requires effort.”	stoicism
7,492	“Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.”	stoicism
7,493	“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”	stoicism
7,494	“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”	stoicism
7,495	“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”	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
7,497	“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
7,498	“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”	stoicism
7,499	“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”	stoicism
7,500	“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn‟t born for one particular corner: the whole world‟s my home country.”	stoicism
7,501	“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.”	stoicism
7,502	“I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. [...] Truth lies open to everyone.”	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
7,504	“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”	stoicism
7,505	“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”	stoicism
7,506	“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”	stoicism
7,507	“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”	stoicism
7,508	“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”	stoicism
7,509	“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”	stoicism
7,510	“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”	stoicism
7,511	“The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common symptoms of intellectual immaturity.”	stoicism
7,512	“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”	stoicism
7,513	“Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”	stoicism

7,414

“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”

stoicism

7,415

“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: "What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”

stoicism

7,416

“To lose someone you love is something you'll regard as the hardest of all blows to bear, while all the time this will be as silly as crying because the leaves fall from the beautiful trees that add to the charm of your home. [...] At one moment chance will carry off one of them, at another moment another; but the falling of the leaves is not difficult to bear, since they grow again, and it is no more hard to bear the loss of those whom you love and regard as brightening your existence; for even if they do not grow again they are replaced. "But their successors will never be quite the same." No, and neither will you.”

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

7,418

“People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.”

stoicism

7,419

“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice”

stoicism

7,420

“[T]he man who lives extravagantly wants his manner of living to be on everybody's lips as long as he is alive. He thinks he is wasting his time if he is not being talked about.”

stoicism

7,421

“Один из главных принципов стоицизма состоит в умении различать вещи, которыми мы можем управлять и которыми — нет.”

stoicism

7,422

“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”

stoicism

7,423

“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”

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

7,425

“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”

stoicism

7,426

“If you admit to having derived great pleasures, your duty is not to complain about what has been taken away but to be thankful for what you have been given.”

stoicism

7,427

“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”

stoicism

7,428

“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”

stoicism

7,429

“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”

stoicism

7,430

“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”

stoicism

7,431

“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”

stoicism

7,432

“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”

stoicism

7,433

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”

stoicism

7,434

“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”

stoicism

7,435

“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”

stoicism

7,436

“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”

stoicism

7,437

“Even in the longest life real living is the least portion thereof.”

stoicism

7,438

“Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teaching. And to have seen someone who clearly viewed his expertise and ability as a teacher as the humblest of virtues. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. On Apolonius”

stoicism

7,439

“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”

stoicism

7,440

“[C]ling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always take full not of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do.”

stoicism

7,441

“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”

stoicism

7,442

“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”

stoicism

7,443

“It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.”

stoicism

7,444

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

stoicism

7,445

“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”

stoicism

7,446

“For a life spent viewing all the variety, the majesty, the sublimity in things around us can never succumb to ennui: the feeling that one is tired of being, of existing, is usually the result of an idle and inactive leisure.”

stoicism

7,447

“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”

stoicism

7,448

“I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.”

stoicism

7,449

“If a discrepancy exists between supply and demand, then for the Stoics the prescription for a happy life was to decrease demand, not to increase supply (or production), which the Hedonists saw as the prescription for a happy life.”

stoicism

7,450

“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”

stoicism

7,451

“Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, “This is an accident of mortality.” But if anyone’s own child happens to die, it is immediately, “Alas! how wretched am I!” It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.”

stoicism

7,452

“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”

stoicism

7,453

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

stoicism

7,454

“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”

stoicism

7,455

“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”

stoicism

7,456

“It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.”

stoicism

7,457

“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”

stoicism

7,458

“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”

stoicism

7,459

“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”

stoicism

7,460

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

stoicism

7,461

“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”

stoicism

7,462

“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”

stoicism

7,463

“Change: nothing inherently bad in the process, nothing inherently good in the result.”

stoicism

7,464

“When pain comes, it must not derail you from your set virtues. If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”

stoicism

7,465

“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”

stoicism

7,466

“The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.”

stoicism

7,467

“It takes patience to nurture patience.”

stoicism

7,468

“Optimism is an effort.”

stoicism

7,469

“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”

stoicism

7,470

“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”

stoicism

7,471

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

stoicism

7,472

“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”

stoicism

7,473

“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”

stoicism

7,474

“Pretty much all wealthy people who were willing to lose and have lost their health while chasing wealth are now willing to lose their wealth while chasing health.”

stoicism

7,475

“We are forever getting closer to the dreaded moment that will finally confirm that we will not live forever.”

stoicism

7,476

“The qualities of stoic self-denial, self-sacrifice for others, patient labour, expiation for past error, willing acceptance of the burdens of life, were for him nobler manifestations of humanity than ostentatious feats of bravery, death-defying deeds of heroism or a life ruled by passions. He was persuaded that moral strength could best be displayed by silent endurance rather than by vehement anger and passionate rebellion.”

stoicism

7,477

“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”

stoicism

7,478

“Every second is a step away from our mothers’ wombs towards our own tombs.”

stoicism

7,479

“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”

stoicism

7,480

“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”

stoicism

7,481

“...when I asked him if he forgave me, he answered that he was not in the habit of cherishing the remembrance of vexation; that he had nothing to forgive; not having been offended.”

stoicism

7,482

“We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.”

stoicism

7,483

“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”

stoicism

7,484

“If you lose today every-day, you are lost every-day.”

stoicism

7,485

“Tomorrow will take care of itself, so take care of today, otherwise tomorrow will take ill-care of you today – thus losing today.”

stoicism

7,486

“Tomorrow’s worries contaminate the present.”

stoicism

7,487

“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”

stoicism

7,488

“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.”

stoicism

7,489

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

stoicism

7,490

“Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.”

stoicism

7,491

“Unlike existing, living requires effort.”

stoicism

7,492

“Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.”

stoicism

7,493

“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”

stoicism

7,494

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

stoicism

7,495

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

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

7,497

“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

7,498

“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”

stoicism

7,499

“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”

stoicism

7,500

“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn‟t born for one particular corner: the whole world‟s my home country.”

stoicism

7,501

“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.”

stoicism

7,502

“I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. [...] Truth lies open to everyone.”

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

7,504

“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”

stoicism

7,505

“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”

stoicism

7,506

“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”

stoicism

7,507

“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”

stoicism

7,508

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

stoicism

7,509

“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”

stoicism

7,510

“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”

stoicism

7,511

“The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common symptoms of intellectual immaturity.”

stoicism

7,512

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

stoicism

7,513

“Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”

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