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7,110	“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”	stoicism
7,320	“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”	stoicism
7,381	“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”	stoicism
7,058	“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”	stoicism
7,023	“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”	stoicism
7,503	“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”	stoicism
7,126	“Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.”	stoicism
6,792	“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”	stoicism
7,531	“Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.”	stoicism
7,291	“However one may interpret this culturally, the upshot is the same: people carry within them a great number of wishes to which they react passively and which they hide. Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them. To a patient who, let us say, is interminably rationalizing and justifying this and that, balancing one thing against another as though life were a tremendous market place where all the business is done on paper and tickertape and there are never any goods , I sometimes have the inclination in psychotherapy to shout out, “Don't you ever want anything?” But I don't cry out, for it is not difficult to see that on some level the patient does want a good deal; the trouble is he has formulated and reformulated it, until it is the “rattling of dry bones,” as Eliot puts it. Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled. And whether the reader would disagree with me on this or that detail, our psychological problem is the same: it is necessary for us to help the patient achieve some emotional viability and honesty by bringing out his wishes and his capacity to wish. This is not the end of therapy but it is an essential starting point.”	stoicism
7,527	“Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.”	stoicism
7,606	“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names bonum et malum to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the Paradoxa of Cicero." —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”	stoicism
6,869	“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of or a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you”	stoicism
7,571	“At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.”	stoicism
6,949	“We are existing in a thin sliver of light between two potentially infinite portions of darkness.”	stoicism
6,992	“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”	stoicism
7,675	“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”	stoicism
7,531	“Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.”	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
7,211	“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”	stoicism
7,377	“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”	stoicism
7,538	“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”	stoicism
7,094	“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”	stoicism
7,285	“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”	stoicism
6,785	“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”	stoicism
7,561	“[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already. (Letter XVI)”	stoicism
7,105	“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”	stoicism
7,528	“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”	stoicism
7,027	“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”	stoicism
7,266	“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”	stoicism
7,665	“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”	stoicism
6,929	“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”	stoicism
7,244	“There is usually at least one person praying for a situation, or an outcome, that is the exact opposite of the one someone or some people are praying for.”	stoicism
7,621	“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”	stoicism
7,433	“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”	stoicism
7,677	“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
7,459	“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”	stoicism
7,444	“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”	stoicism
7,149	“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”	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
7,460	“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”	stoicism
7,196	“Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?”	stoicism
7,382	“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
7,037	“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”	stoicism
7,604	“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”	stoicism
7,346	“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”	stoicism
7,186	“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”	stoicism
6,937	“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”	stoicism
7,611	“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”	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
7,325	“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”	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
7,166	“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”	stoicism
6,781	“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”	stoicism
7,376	“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”	stoicism
7,071	“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”	stoicism
7,667	“During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.”	stoicism
7,022	“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”	stoicism
7,268	“Be someone who is cool under pressure. Value serenity instead of outrage. It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here. If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn that the angriest, most passionate public figures are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences. Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance, reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom. The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making. As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion to pass for reason and factual debate.”	stoicism
7,523	“All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.”	stoicism
6,804	“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”	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
7,618	“Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now." "Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!”	stoicism
6,859	“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”	stoicism
7,545	“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”	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
7,371	“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”	stoicism
7,187	“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”	stoicism
6,884	“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”	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
7,672	“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”	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
7,595	“What would Heracles have been if he had said, "How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”	stoicism
7,270	“See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”	stoicism
7,395	“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”	stoicism
7,262	“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”	stoicism
6,844	“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”	stoicism
7,182	“Happiness is sweet; its pursuit, bitter.”	stoicism
7,145	“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”	stoicism
7,189	“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”	stoicism
7,498	“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”	stoicism
7,046	“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”	stoicism
7,530	“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”	stoicism
7,445	“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”	stoicism
7,163	“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”	stoicism
7,638	“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”	stoicism
7,226	“Death is freedom from life.”	stoicism
6,961	“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”	stoicism
7,508	“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”	stoicism
7,458	“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”	stoicism
6,868	“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”	stoicism
7,317	“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”	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
7,433	“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”	stoicism
7,432	“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”	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
7,505	“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”	stoicism
6,806	“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”	stoicism
7,549	“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”	stoicism
7,138	“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”	stoicism

7,110

“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”

stoicism

7,320

“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”

stoicism

7,381

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

stoicism

7,058

“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”

stoicism

7,023

“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”

stoicism

7,503

“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”

stoicism

7,126

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

stoicism

6,792

“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”

stoicism

7,531

“Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.”

stoicism

7,291

“However one may interpret this culturally, the upshot is the same: people carry within them a great number of wishes to which they react passively and which they hide. Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them. To a patient who, let us say, is interminably rationalizing and justifying this and that, balancing one thing against another as though life were a tremendous market place where all the business is done on paper and tickertape and there are never any goods , I sometimes have the inclination in psychotherapy to shout out, “Don't you ever want anything?” But I don't cry out, for it is not difficult to see that on some level the patient does want a good deal; the trouble is he has formulated and reformulated it, until it is the “rattling of dry bones,” as Eliot puts it. Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled. And whether the reader would disagree with me on this or that detail, our psychological problem is the same: it is necessary for us to help the patient achieve some emotional viability and honesty by bringing out his wishes and his capacity to wish. This is not the end of therapy but it is an essential starting point.”

stoicism

7,527

“Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.”

stoicism

7,606

“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero." —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”

stoicism

6,869

“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of or a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you”

stoicism

7,571

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

stoicism

6,949

“We are existing in a thin sliver of light between two potentially infinite portions of darkness.”

stoicism

6,992

“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”

stoicism

7,675

“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”

stoicism

7,531

“Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.”

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

7,211

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

stoicism

7,377

“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”

stoicism

7,538

“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”

stoicism

7,094

“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”

stoicism

7,285

“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”

stoicism

6,785

“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”

stoicism

7,561

“[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already. (Letter XVI)”

stoicism

7,105

“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”

stoicism

7,528

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

stoicism

7,027

“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”

stoicism

7,266

“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”

stoicism

7,665

“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”

stoicism

6,929

“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”

stoicism

7,244

“There is usually at least one person praying for a situation, or an outcome, that is the exact opposite of the one someone or some people are praying for.”

stoicism

7,621

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

stoicism

7,433

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

stoicism

7,677

“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

7,459

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

stoicism

7,444

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

stoicism

7,149

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

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’.”

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7,460

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

stoicism

7,196

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

stoicism

7,382

“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

7,037

“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”

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7,604

“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”

stoicism

7,346

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

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7,186

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

stoicism

6,937

“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”

stoicism

7,611

“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”

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

7,325

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

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

7,166

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

stoicism

6,781

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”

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7,376

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

stoicism

7,071

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

stoicism

7,667

“During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.”

stoicism

7,022

“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”

stoicism

7,268

“Be someone who is cool under pressure. Value serenity instead of outrage. It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here. If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn that the angriest, most passionate public figures are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences. Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance, reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom. The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making. As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion to pass for reason and factual debate.”

stoicism

7,523

“All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.”

stoicism

6,804

“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”

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

7,618

“Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now." "Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!”

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6,859

“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”

stoicism

7,545

“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”

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

7,371

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

stoicism

7,187

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

stoicism

6,884

“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”

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

7,672

“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”

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.”

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7,595

“What would Heracles have been if he had said, "How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”

stoicism

7,270

“See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”

stoicism

7,395

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

stoicism

7,262

“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”

stoicism

6,844

“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”

stoicism

7,182

“Happiness is sweet; its pursuit, bitter.”

stoicism

7,145

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

stoicism

7,189

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

stoicism

7,498

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

stoicism

7,046

“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”

stoicism

7,530

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

stoicism

7,445

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

stoicism

7,163

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

stoicism

7,638

“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”

stoicism

7,226

“Death is freedom from life.”

stoicism

6,961

“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”

stoicism

7,508

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

stoicism

7,458

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

stoicism

6,868

“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”

stoicism

7,317

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

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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

7,433

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

stoicism

7,432

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

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

7,505

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

stoicism

6,806

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

stoicism

7,549

“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”

stoicism

7,138

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

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