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7,123	“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”	stoicism
7,603	“The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever has said, "I have lived' receives a windfall every day he gets up in the morning.”	stoicism
7,569	“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”	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
7,623	“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”	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
7,434	“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”	stoicism
7,467	“It takes patience to nurture patience.”	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
6,959	“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”	stoicism
6,894	“Luck plays such an overpowering role in some lives that the thoughtful person must ask: ‘Why have I been cursed with bad luck while another is blessed with so much good luck?’ Believe me, the fortunate person who receives the favorable breaks also wonders about his favored situation. In my case, I have no explanation. I was hardworking; I had a tough character; I was a good student; and I acknowledged the leadership of my superiors. But no amount of hard work or high standard of behavior could have brought the many good things that happened to me; pure chance dictated most of them. The only generalization I can offer is that in an irrational world if a prudent course has been followed, you make yourself eligible to capitalize on luck if it happens to strike. If you have not made yourself eligible, you may never be aware that luck is at hand. By all this I mean: learn typing, master math, learn to draft a convincing letter, broaden the mind, and do not evade challenges. Making oneself eligible to seize the breaks if and when they come is the only sensible strategy I know. Be prepared to make full use of any stroke of luck, and even if it never comes, the preparation in itself will be a worthy effort.” —Chapter VIII, “Writing”, page 289”	stoicism
6,919	“How much longer are you going to wait to demand the best for yourself?" he asked her, as she sat quietly in the back.”	stoicism
7,083	“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”	stoicism
7,339	“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
7,111	“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”	stoicism
7,074	“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”	stoicism
7,461	“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”	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
7,607	“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
7,552	“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”	stoicism
6,823	“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”	stoicism
7,213	“Failing can ultimately be way more rewarding than succeeding.”	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
7,033	“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”	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
7,341	“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”	stoicism
7,389	“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”	stoicism
6,774	“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”	stoicism
6,872	“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”	stoicism
6,965	“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”	stoicism
7,543	“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”	stoicism
7,646	“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”	stoicism
7,653	“Why be concerned about others, come to that, when you've outdone your own self? Set yourself a limit which you couldn't even exceed if you wanted to, and say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them. If there were anything substantial in them they would sooner or later bring a sense of fullness; as it is they simply aggravate the thirst of those who swallow them.”	stoicism
7,119	“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”	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
7,636	“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”	stoicism
7,592	“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”	stoicism
7,589	“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”	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
7,038	“Remember you will die but do brave deeds and endure”	stoicism
7,139	“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”	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
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
7,439	“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
7,428	“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”	stoicism
7,426	“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
6,889	“...what will you do when you are dead? "My name will remain." Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? "But I shall wear a crown of gold." If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”	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
7,556	“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”	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
6,827	“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”	stoicism
7,115	“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”	stoicism
7,510	“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”	stoicism
7,243	“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”	stoicism
6,886	“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”	stoicism
7,599	“Life is how you look at it.”	stoicism
7,560	“Sometimes we have no luxury of choice. We must do certain things for survival. That should not stop us from doing the things we love.”	stoicism
6,896	“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”	stoicism
7,162	“Hunger is by far the best spice.”	stoicism
7,677	“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”	stoicism
7,410	“[A] man is wealthy if he has attuned himself to his restricted means and has made himself rich on little.”	stoicism
6,827	“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”	stoicism
7,403	“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”	stoicism
7,282	“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”	stoicism
7,520	“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”	stoicism
7,571	“At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.”	stoicism
6,865	“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of "the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos"; second, the Stoic "feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness"; third, the Stoic "believes in the absolute value of the human person," a belief that is "at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'"; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration "on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world." 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of "a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”	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
6,887	“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”	stoicism
7,329	“Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”	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
7,257	“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”	stoicism
7,006	“Life is a series of problems we must navigate with grace - one problem solved, another arises, again and again until we die.”	stoicism
7,654	“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”	stoicism
7,666	“I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.”	stoicism
7,041	“Fools act wise, not wisely.”	stoicism
6,958	“For when you have subjected to externals what is your own, then be a slave and do not resist, and do not sometimes choose to be a slave, and sometimes not choose, but with all your mind be one or the other.”	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
7,216	“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”	stoicism
7,350	“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”	stoicism
7,559	“Death is the release of an organism from the prison of life.”	stoicism
7,630	“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”	stoicism
7,016	“In a little while you too will close your eyes, and soon there will be others mourning the man who buries you.”	stoicism
6,845	“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”	stoicism
6,923	“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”	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
7,204	“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
6,855	“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”	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
7,054	“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”	stoicism
6,989	“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”	stoicism
6,838	“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”	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
6,863	“Your mind is your most powerful ally; master it, and no obstacle will ever stand in your way.”	stoicism
7,519	“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”	stoicism
7,222	“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”	stoicism
6,973	“The most terrifying ghosts that haunt us are the ones of our dead dreams, especially if we were the murderers.”	stoicism
6,987	“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”	stoicism
7,243	“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”	stoicism
7,201	“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”	stoicism

7,123

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

stoicism

7,603

“The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever has said, "I have lived' receives a windfall every day he gets up in the morning.”

stoicism

7,569

“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”

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

7,623

“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”

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

7,434

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

stoicism

7,467

“It takes patience to nurture patience.”

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

6,959

“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”

stoicism

6,894

“Luck plays such an overpowering role in some lives that the thoughtful person must ask: ‘Why have I been cursed with bad luck while another is blessed with so much good luck?’ Believe me, the fortunate person who receives the favorable breaks also wonders about his favored situation. In my case, I have no explanation. I was hardworking; I had a tough character; I was a good student; and I acknowledged the leadership of my superiors. But no amount of hard work or high standard of behavior could have brought the many good things that happened to me; pure chance dictated most of them. The only generalization I can offer is that in an irrational world if a prudent course has been followed, you make yourself eligible to capitalize on luck if it happens to strike. If you have not made yourself eligible, you may never be aware that luck is at hand. By all this I mean: learn typing, master math, learn to draft a convincing letter, broaden the mind, and do not evade challenges. Making oneself eligible to seize the breaks if and when they come is the only sensible strategy I know. Be prepared to make full use of any stroke of luck, and even if it never comes, the preparation in itself will be a worthy effort.” —Chapter VIII, “Writing”, page 289”

stoicism

6,919

“How much longer are you going to wait to demand the best for yourself?" he asked her, as she sat quietly in the back.”

stoicism

7,083

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

stoicism

7,339

“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

7,111

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

stoicism

7,074

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

stoicism

7,461

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

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

7,607

“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

7,552

“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”

stoicism

6,823

“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”

stoicism

7,213

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

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

7,033

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

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

7,341

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

stoicism

7,389

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

stoicism

6,774

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”

stoicism

6,872

“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”

stoicism

6,965

“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”

stoicism

7,543

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

stoicism

7,646

“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”

stoicism

7,653

“Why be concerned about others, come to that, when you've outdone your own self? Set yourself a limit which you couldn't even exceed if you wanted to, and say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them. If there were anything substantial in them they would sooner or later bring a sense of fullness; as it is they simply aggravate the thirst of those who swallow them.”

stoicism

7,119

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

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

7,636

“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”

stoicism

7,592

“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”

stoicism

7,589

“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”

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

7,038

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

stoicism

7,139

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

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

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

7,439

“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

7,428

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

stoicism

7,426

“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

6,889

“...what will you do when you are dead? "My name will remain." Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? "But I shall wear a crown of gold." If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”

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

7,556

“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”

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

6,827

“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”

stoicism

7,115

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

stoicism

7,510

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

stoicism

7,243

“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”

stoicism

6,886

“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”

stoicism

7,599

“Life is how you look at it.”

stoicism

7,560

“Sometimes we have no luxury of choice. We must do certain things for survival. That should not stop us from doing the things we love.”

stoicism

6,896

“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”

stoicism

7,162

“Hunger is by far the best spice.”

stoicism

7,677

“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”

stoicism

7,410

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

stoicism

6,827

“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”

stoicism

7,403

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

stoicism

7,282

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

stoicism

7,520

“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”

stoicism

7,571

“At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.”

stoicism

6,865

“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of "the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos"; second, the Stoic "feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness"; third, the Stoic "believes in the absolute value of the human person," a belief that is "at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'"; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration "on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world." 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of "a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”

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

6,887

“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”

stoicism

7,329

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

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

7,257

“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”

stoicism

7,006

“Life is a series of problems we must navigate with grace - one problem solved, another arises, again and again until we die.”

stoicism

7,654

“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”

stoicism

7,666

“I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.”

stoicism

7,041

“Fools act wise, not wisely.”

stoicism

6,958

“For when you have subjected to externals what is your own, then be a slave and do not resist, and do not sometimes choose to be a slave, and sometimes not choose, but with all your mind be one or the other.”

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

7,216

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

stoicism

7,350

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

stoicism

7,559

“Death is the release of an organism from the prison of life.”

stoicism

7,630

“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”

stoicism

7,016

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

stoicism

6,845

“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”

stoicism

6,923

“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”

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

7,204

“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

6,855

“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”

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

7,054

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

stoicism

6,989

“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”

stoicism

6,838

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

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

6,863

“Your mind is your most powerful ally; master it, and no obstacle will ever stand in your way.”

stoicism

7,519

“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”

stoicism

7,222

“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”

stoicism

6,973

“The most terrifying ghosts that haunt us are the ones of our dead dreams, especially if we were the murderers.”

stoicism

6,987

“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”

stoicism

7,243

“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”

stoicism

7,201

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

stoicism