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7,314	“Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of ‘success’ or ‘wealth’.”	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
7,316	“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”	stoicism
7,317	“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”	stoicism
7,318	“Some people get killed by water. Some die from dehydration.”	stoicism
7,319	“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”	stoicism
7,320	“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”	stoicism
7,321	“A true believer in God prays only to thank, never to ask; and welcomes, with open arms, every single thing that is happening.”	stoicism
7,322	“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”	stoicism
7,323	“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”	stoicism
7,324	“Some things do not make sense, not in themselves, but to some people.”	stoicism
7,325	“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”	stoicism
7,326	“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”	stoicism
7,327	“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”	stoicism
7,328	“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”	stoicism
7,329	“Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”	stoicism
7,330	“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”	stoicism
7,331	“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”	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
7,333	“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”	stoicism
7,334	“All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.”	stoicism
7,335	“Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.”	stoicism
7,336	“Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.”	stoicism
7,337	“Escaping death is a temporary victory.”	stoicism
7,338	“Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.”	stoicism
7,339	“The fear of being poor or broke is a blessing, if you are a successful entrepreneur; but is a curse, if you want to be an entrepreneur.”	stoicism
7,340	“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”	stoicism
7,341	“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”	stoicism
7,342	“Silence is often the wisest reply.”	stoicism
7,343	“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”	stoicism
7,344	“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”	stoicism
7,345	“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”	stoicism
7,346	“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”	stoicism
7,347	“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”	stoicism
7,348	“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”	stoicism
7,349	“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”	stoicism
7,350	“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”	stoicism
7,351	“Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”	stoicism
7,352	“The wise willingly accept the unwillingness of the foolish to accept what is as part of what is.”	stoicism
7,353	“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”	stoicism
7,354	“Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.”	stoicism
7,355	“Life is happening neither to nor for but through us.”	stoicism
7,356	“The vast majority of people make complaining seem to be a basic human need.”	stoicism
7,357	“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”	stoicism
7,358	“And, just as it is harder to have good qualities when one is rich than when one is poor, it is harder to be a Stoic when one is wealthy, powerful, and respected than when one is destitute, miserable, and lonely.”	stoicism
7,359	“Seeing your loved one asleep is a great opportunity to practice seeing them dead.”	stoicism
7,360	“We are all capable of laughing at what is meant or expected to make us unhappy or angry.”	stoicism
7,361	“Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.”	stoicism
7,362	“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”	stoicism
7,363	“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”	stoicism
7,364	“The same situation can either be perceived as a lead ball chained to your feet, or as wings growing out of your shoulder blades. How you interpret the challenge is crucial to your success of overcoming it. Ultimately, it's never the challenges that matter, but how you perceive them.”	stoicism
7,365	“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now".”	stoicism
7,366	“Stoicism is a logical philosophy.”	stoicism
7,367	“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”	stoicism
7,368	“If an adult has just moved as fast as a child, from crying to laughing, then it is either the laughter is fake, or they are being tickled.”	stoicism
7,369	“Our deaths are not obliged to happen in the same order as our births.”	stoicism
7,370	“Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don’t stop it. Is it not yet come? Don’t stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods. And if you don’t even take the things which are set before you, but are able even to reject them, then you will not only be a partner at the feasts of the gods, but also of their empire.”	stoicism
7,371	“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”	stoicism
7,372	“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be recommended by him to philosophers, he took and recommended them, so well did he bear being overlooked. So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.”	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
7,374	“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”	stoicism
7,375	“Philosophy is not an occupation of a popular nature, nor is it pursued for the sake of self-advertisement. Its concern is not with words, but with facts. It is not carried on with the object of passing the day in an entertaining sort of way and taking the boredom out of leisure. It moulds and builds the personality, orders one’s life, regulates one’s conduct, shows one what one should do and what one should leave undone, sits at the helm and keeps one on the correct course as one is tossed about in perilous seas. Without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry. Every hour of the day countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”	stoicism
7,376	“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”	stoicism
7,377	“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”	stoicism
7,378	“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”	stoicism
7,379	“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”	stoicism
7,380	“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”	stoicism
7,381	“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”	stoicism
7,382	“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”	stoicism
7,383	“Но Эпиктет призывал мужественно смотреть в лицо реальности, а реальность такова, что все люди смертны и никто из них не принадлежит нам и не останется с нами навечно. [...] Признав эту реальность, мы понимаем, что должны наслаждаться любовью наших близких и общением с ними, когда это возможно, а не принимать их как должное: ведь неминуемо настанет день, когда «установленное время года» пройдет.”	stoicism
7,384	“why should I demand from fortune that she should give me this and that rather than demand from myself that I should not ask for them? why should I ask for them, after all? am I to pile them up in total forgetfulness of the frailty of human existence?”	stoicism
7,385	“The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.”	stoicism
7,386	“Истории о великих деяниях не только вдохновляют нас, не только будят в нас все лучшее и усиливают нашу веру в человека, но и напоминают о том, насколько проще и безопаснее стала сегодня жизнь для большинства из нас. Разве требуется так уж много мужества, чтобы противостоять боссу, который плохо обошелся с вашим коллегой? Худшее, что с вами может случиться, — это увольнение. Но ведь вас не будут пытать и не посадят в одиночную камеру, как Стокдейла, так неужели трудно вести себя достойно и честно в повседневной жизни? Если на то пошло, сохранить свою честь можно и не прибегая к жестокому самоубийству, как Катон. Только представьте, насколько лучше стал бы наш мир, если бы все мы каждый день проявляли чуть больше мужества, мудрости, умеренности и боролись против несправедливости.”	stoicism
7,387	“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”	stoicism
7,388	“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle".”	stoicism
7,389	“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”	stoicism
7,390	“Sometimes we are lucky to lose something or someone.”	stoicism
7,391	“For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”	stoicism
7,392	“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”	stoicism
7,393	“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”	stoicism
7,394	“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”	stoicism
7,395	“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”	stoicism
7,396	“Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.”	stoicism
7,397	“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”	stoicism
7,398	“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”	stoicism
7,399	“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”	stoicism
7,400	“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”	stoicism
7,401	“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”	stoicism
7,402	“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”	stoicism
7,403	“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”	stoicism
7,404	“[E]verything which went beyond our actual needs was just so much unnecessary weight, a burden to the man who had to carry it.”	stoicism
7,405	“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 out 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. So we need to hurry. Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understanding—our grasp of the world—may be gone before we get there.”	stoicism
7,406	“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”	stoicism
7,407	“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”	stoicism
7,408	“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”	stoicism
7,409	“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”	stoicism
7,410	“[A] man is wealthy if he has attuned himself to his restricted means and has made himself rich on little.”	stoicism
7,411	“All vices are at odds with nature.”	stoicism
7,412	“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”	stoicism
7,413	“Consider what intemperate lovers undergo for the sake of evil desires, and how much exertion others expend for the sake of making profit, and how much suffering those who are pursuing fame endure, and bear in mind that all of these people submit to all kinds of toil and hardship voluntarily. Is it then not monstrous that they for no honorable reward endure such things, while we for the sake of the ideal good - that is not only the avoidance of evil such as wrecks our lives, but also the acquisition of virtue, which we may call the provider of all goods -- are not ready to bear every hardship? And yet would not anyone admit how much better it is, in place of exerting oneself to win someone else's wife, to exert oneself the discipline of one's desires; in place of enduring hardships for the sake of money, the train oneself to want little; instead of giving oneself trouble about getting notoriety; instead of trying to find a way to injure an envied person, to enquire how not to envy anyone; and instead of slaving, as sycophants do, to win false friends, to undergo suffering in order to possess true friends? Since toil and hardship are a necessity for all, both for those who seek better and worse, it is preposterous that those pursuing the better are not much more eager in their efforts than those for whom there is small hope of reward for all their pains. ... It remains for me to say that who is unwilling to exert himself almost always convicts himself as unworthy of good, since all good is gained by toil.”	stoicism

7,314

“Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of ‘success’ or ‘wealth’.”

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

7,316

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

stoicism

7,317

“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”

stoicism

7,318

“Some people get killed by water. Some die from dehydration.”

stoicism

7,319

“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”

stoicism

7,320

“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”

stoicism

7,321

“A true believer in God prays only to thank, never to ask; and welcomes, with open arms, every single thing that is happening.”

stoicism

7,322

“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”

stoicism

7,323

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

stoicism

7,324

“Some things do not make sense, not in themselves, but to some people.”

stoicism

7,325

“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”

stoicism

7,326

“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”

stoicism

7,327

“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”

stoicism

7,328

“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”

stoicism

7,329

“Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”

stoicism

7,330

“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”

stoicism

7,331

“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”

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

7,333

“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”

stoicism

7,334

“All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.”

stoicism

7,335

“Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.”

stoicism

7,336

“Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.”

stoicism

7,337

“Escaping death is a temporary victory.”

stoicism

7,338

“Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.”

stoicism

7,339

“The fear of being poor or broke is a blessing, if you are a successful entrepreneur; but is a curse, if you want to be an entrepreneur.”

stoicism

7,340

“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”

stoicism

7,341

“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”

stoicism

7,342

“Silence is often the wisest reply.”

stoicism

7,343

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

stoicism

7,344

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

stoicism

7,345

“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”

stoicism

7,346

“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”

stoicism

7,347

“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”

stoicism

7,348

“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”

stoicism

7,349

“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”

stoicism

7,350

“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”

stoicism

7,351

“Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”

stoicism

7,352

“The wise willingly accept the unwillingness of the foolish to accept what is as part of what is.”

stoicism

7,353

“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”

stoicism

7,354

“Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.”

stoicism

7,355

“Life is happening neither to nor for but through us.”

stoicism

7,356

“The vast majority of people make complaining seem to be a basic human need.”

stoicism

7,357

“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”

stoicism

7,358

“And, just as it is harder to have good qualities when one is rich than when one is poor, it is harder to be a Stoic when one is wealthy, powerful, and respected than when one is destitute, miserable, and lonely.”

stoicism

7,359

“Seeing your loved one asleep is a great opportunity to practice seeing them dead.”

stoicism

7,360

“We are all capable of laughing at what is meant or expected to make us unhappy or angry.”

stoicism

7,361

“Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.”

stoicism

7,362

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

stoicism

7,363

“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”

stoicism

7,364

“The same situation can either be perceived as a lead ball chained to your feet, or as wings growing out of your shoulder blades. How you interpret the challenge is crucial to your success of overcoming it. Ultimately, it's never the challenges that matter, but how you perceive them.”

stoicism

7,365

“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now".”

stoicism

7,366

“Stoicism is a logical philosophy.”

stoicism

7,367

“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”

stoicism

7,368

“If an adult has just moved as fast as a child, from crying to laughing, then it is either the laughter is fake, or they are being tickled.”

stoicism

7,369

“Our deaths are not obliged to happen in the same order as our births.”

stoicism

7,370

“Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don’t stop it. Is it not yet come? Don’t stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods. And if you don’t even take the things which are set before you, but are able even to reject them, then you will not only be a partner at the feasts of the gods, but also of their empire.”

stoicism

7,371

“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”

stoicism

7,372

“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be recommended by him to philosophers, he took and recommended them, so well did he bear being overlooked. So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.”

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

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“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”

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“Philosophy is not an occupation of a popular nature, nor is it pursued for the sake of self-advertisement. Its concern is not with words, but with facts. It is not carried on with the object of passing the day in an entertaining sort of way and taking the boredom out of leisure. It moulds and builds the personality, orders one’s life, regulates one’s conduct, shows one what one should do and what one should leave undone, sits at the helm and keeps one on the correct course as one is tossed about in perilous seas. Without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry. Every hour of the day countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”

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“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”

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“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”

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7,378

“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”

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7,379

“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”

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7,380

“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”

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7,381

“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”

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

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“Но Эпиктет призывал мужественно смотреть в лицо реальности, а реальность такова, что все люди смертны и никто из них не принадлежит нам и не останется с нами навечно. [...] Признав эту реальность, мы понимаем, что должны наслаждаться любовью наших близких и общением с ними, когда это возможно, а не принимать их как должное: ведь неминуемо настанет день, когда «установленное время года» пройдет.”

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“why should I demand from fortune that she should give me this and that rather than demand from myself that I should not ask for them? why should I ask for them, after all? am I to pile them up in total forgetfulness of the frailty of human existence?”

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“The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.”

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“Истории о великих деяниях не только вдохновляют нас, не только будят в нас все лучшее и усиливают нашу веру в человека, но и напоминают о том, насколько проще и безопаснее стала сегодня жизнь для большинства из нас. Разве требуется так уж много мужества, чтобы противостоять боссу, который плохо обошелся с вашим коллегой? Худшее, что с вами может случиться, — это увольнение. Но ведь вас не будут пытать и не посадят в одиночную камеру, как Стокдейла, так неужели трудно вести себя достойно и честно в повседневной жизни? Если на то пошло, сохранить свою честь можно и не прибегая к жестокому самоубийству, как Катон. Только представьте, насколько лучше стал бы наш мир, если бы все мы каждый день проявляли чуть больше мужества, мудрости, умеренности и боролись против несправедливости.”

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“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”

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“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle".”

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“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”

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7,390

“Sometimes we are lucky to lose something or someone.”

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7,391

“For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”

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“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”

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“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”

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7,394

“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”

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“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”

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“Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.”

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“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”

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“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”

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7,399

“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”

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“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”

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7,401

“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”

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7,402

“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”

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

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“[E]verything which went beyond our actual needs was just so much unnecessary weight, a burden to the man who had to carry it.”

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“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 out 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. So we need to hurry. Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understanding—our grasp of the world—may be gone before we get there.”

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“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”

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“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”

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“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”

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“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”

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“[A] man is wealthy if he has attuned himself to his restricted means and has made himself rich on little.”

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“All vices are at odds with nature.”

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

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“Consider what intemperate lovers undergo for the sake of evil desires, and how much exertion others expend for the sake of making profit, and how much suffering those who are pursuing fame endure, and bear in mind that all of these people submit to all kinds of toil and hardship voluntarily. Is it then not monstrous that they for no honorable reward endure such things, while we for the sake of the ideal good - that is not only the avoidance of evil such as wrecks our lives, but also the acquisition of virtue, which we may call the provider of all goods -- are not ready to bear every hardship? And yet would not anyone admit how much better it is, in place of exerting oneself to win someone else's wife, to exert oneself the discipline of one's desires; in place of enduring hardships for the sake of money, the train oneself to want little; instead of giving oneself trouble about getting notoriety; instead of trying to find a way to injure an envied person, to enquire how not to envy anyone; and instead of slaving, as sycophants do, to win false friends, to undergo suffering in order to possess true friends? Since toil and hardship are a necessity for all, both for those who seek better and worse, it is preposterous that those pursuing the better are not much more eager in their efforts than those for whom there is small hope of reward for all their pains. ... It remains for me to say that who is unwilling to exert himself almost always convicts himself as unworthy of good, since all good is gained by toil.”

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