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7,191	“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”	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
7,533	“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”	stoicism
7,507	“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”	stoicism
7,575	“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”	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
6,867	“But there can be no such good except as the soul discovers it for itself within itself.”	stoicism
7,619	“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”	stoicism
7,567	“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”	stoicism
7,104	“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”	stoicism
7,628	“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”	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
7,216	“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”	stoicism
7,077	“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”	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
6,935	“The only good and evil in your life lies within you – in your choices.”	stoicism
7,250	“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”	stoicism
7,104	“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”	stoicism
7,311	“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”	stoicism
7,528	“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”	stoicism
6,875	“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”	stoicism
7,332	“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”	stoicism
6,850	“[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.”	stoicism
6,902	“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”	stoicism
7,566	“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”	stoicism
7,669	“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”	stoicism
6,907	“One will never be able to control all things that concern an endeavor, but the magic is in riding the wave.”	stoicism
6,953	“Those who courageously choose to confront extreme hardships perceive their experience differently than others. They have the ability to envision something beyond the difficulties they encounter. Perhaps a glimmer of hope? Or perhaps another form of adversity? The truth is that the only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”	stoicism
7,170	“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”	stoicism
7,099	“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”	stoicism
7,554	“Just as I prepared to stand and bow, a woman appeared with a miniature coffee cup in her hand. She offered it to me. As I took it, I noticed two things: Bugs crawling on the ground and the men approving of me by snapping their fingers. I bowed and took a sip of the coffee and almost fainted. I had a cockroach on my tongue. I looked at the peoples' faces and I could not spit it out. My grandmother would have pushed away the grave's dirt and traveled by willpower to show me her face of abject disappointment. I could not bear that. I opened my throat and drank the cup dry. I counted four cockroaches.”	stoicism
7,277	“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”	stoicism
7,621	“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”	stoicism
6,838	“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”	stoicism
7,315	“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”	stoicism
7,543	“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”	stoicism
6,822	“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”	stoicism
7,219	“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”	stoicism
6,974	“How does one go about persuading the rain to stop?”	stoicism
6,895	“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”	stoicism
7,516	“What”	stoicism
6,812	“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”	stoicism
7,521	“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”	stoicism
7,652	“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”	stoicism
6,880	“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”	stoicism
7,530	“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”	stoicism
7,432	“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”	stoicism
6,952	“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”	stoicism
7,617	“...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...”	stoicism
6,864	“We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.”	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
7,289	“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”	stoicism
7,669	“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”	stoicism
7,129	“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”	stoicism
7,669	“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”	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
7,050	“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”	stoicism
6,964	“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”	stoicism
7,633	“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”	stoicism
6,964	“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”	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
6,862	“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.”	stoicism
7,441	“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”	stoicism
6,830	“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”	stoicism
7,403	“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”	stoicism
6,820	“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”	stoicism
7,172	“Some fools have children. Some have children who have children. And some have children who have children who have children.”	stoicism
7,558	“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”	stoicism
6,774	“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”	stoicism
7,235	“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”	stoicism
7,373	“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”	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
7,598	“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”	stoicism
7,303	“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”	stoicism
7,174	“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”	stoicism
7,607	“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”	stoicism
7,282	“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”	stoicism
7,414	“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”	stoicism
7,002	“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”	stoicism
7,293	“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”	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
6,815	“Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.”	stoicism
7,315	“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”	stoicism
6,847	“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”	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
7,582	“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”	stoicism
6,842	“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”	stoicism
7,563	“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”	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
6,816	“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”	stoicism
6,890	“At its core, Stoicism, like the sturdy oak tree, stands firm amidst the torrential downpour of life’s distractions. It teaches us that while we may not command the winds to change, we possess the power to adjust our sails, to guide our minds through the tumultuous sea of life’s happenings.”	stoicism
6,983	“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”	stoicism
7,008	“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. - Book: "The Obstacle is the Way”	stoicism
6,825	“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”	stoicism
7,119	“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”	stoicism
6,876	“All roads to Hades are of equal length”	stoicism
7,600	“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”	stoicism
6,817	“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works. No one to my mind lets humanity down quite so much as those who study philosophy as if it were a sort of commercial skill and then proceed to live in a quite different manner from the way they tell other people to live.”	stoicism
7,342	“Silence is often the wisest reply.”	stoicism
7,106	“Άριστος τρόπος τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι τὸ μὴ ἐξομοιοῦσθαι”	stoicism

7,191

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

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

7,533

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

stoicism

7,507

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

stoicism

7,575

“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”

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

6,867

“But there can be no such good except as the soul discovers it for itself within itself.”

stoicism

7,619

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”

stoicism

7,567

“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”

stoicism

7,104

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

stoicism

7,628

“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”

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

7,216

“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”

stoicism

7,077

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

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

6,935

“The only good and evil in your life lies within you – in your choices.”

stoicism

7,250

“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”

stoicism

7,104

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

stoicism

7,311

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”

stoicism

7,528

“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”

stoicism

6,875

“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”

stoicism

7,332

“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”

stoicism

6,850

“[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.”

stoicism

6,902

“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”

stoicism

7,566

“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”

stoicism

7,669

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

stoicism

6,907

“One will never be able to control all things that concern an endeavor, but the magic is in riding the wave.”

stoicism

6,953

“Those who courageously choose to confront extreme hardships perceive their experience differently than others. They have the ability to envision something beyond the difficulties they encounter. Perhaps a glimmer of hope? Or perhaps another form of adversity? The truth is that the only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”

stoicism

7,170

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

stoicism

7,099

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

stoicism

7,554

“Just as I prepared to stand and bow, a woman appeared with a miniature coffee cup in her hand. She offered it to me. As I took it, I noticed two things: Bugs crawling on the ground and the men approving of me by snapping their fingers. I bowed and took a sip of the coffee and almost fainted. I had a cockroach on my tongue. I looked at the peoples' faces and I could not spit it out. My grandmother would have pushed away the grave's dirt and traveled by willpower to show me her face of abject disappointment. I could not bear that. I opened my throat and drank the cup dry. I counted four cockroaches.”

stoicism

7,277

“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”

stoicism

7,621

“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”

stoicism

6,838

“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”

stoicism

7,315

“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”

stoicism

7,543

“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”

stoicism

6,822

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

stoicism

7,219

“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”

stoicism

6,974

“How does one go about persuading the rain to stop?”

stoicism

6,895

“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”

stoicism

7,516

“What”

stoicism

6,812

“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”

stoicism

7,521

“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”

stoicism

7,652

“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”

stoicism

6,880

“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”

stoicism

7,530

“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”

stoicism

7,432

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

stoicism

6,952

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

stoicism

7,617

“...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...”

stoicism

6,864

“We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.”

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

7,289

“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”

stoicism

7,669

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

stoicism

7,129

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

stoicism

7,669

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

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

7,050

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

stoicism

6,964

“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”

stoicism

7,633

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

stoicism

6,964

“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”

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

6,862

“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.”

stoicism

7,441

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

stoicism

6,830

“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”

stoicism

7,403

“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”

stoicism

6,820

“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”

stoicism

7,172

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

stoicism

7,558

“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”

stoicism

6,774

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”

stoicism

7,235

“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”

stoicism

7,373

“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”

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

7,598

“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”

stoicism

7,303

“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”

stoicism

7,174

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

stoicism

7,607

“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”

stoicism

7,282

“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”

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7,414

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

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7,002

“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”

stoicism

7,293

“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”

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

6,815

“Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.”

stoicism

7,315

“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”

stoicism

6,847

“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”

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

7,582

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

stoicism

6,842

“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”

stoicism

7,563

“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”

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.”

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“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”

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“At its core, Stoicism, like the sturdy oak tree, stands firm amidst the torrential downpour of life’s distractions. It teaches us that while we may not command the winds to change, we possess the power to adjust our sails, to guide our minds through the tumultuous sea of life’s happenings.”

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“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”

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“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. - Book: "The Obstacle is the Way”

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“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”

stoicism

7,119

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

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6,876

“All roads to Hades are of equal length”

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7,600

“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”

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

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“Silence is often the wisest reply.”

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7,106

“Άριστος τρόπος τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι τὸ μὴ ἐξομοιοῦσθαι”

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