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7,464	“When pain comes, it must not derail you from your set virtues. If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”	stoicism
7,294	“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”	stoicism
7,048	“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”	stoicism
6,986	“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”	stoicism
7,636	“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”	stoicism
7,642	“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”	stoicism
7,567	“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”	stoicism
7,042	“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”	stoicism
7,650	“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”	stoicism
6,831	“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”	stoicism
7,365	“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now".”	stoicism
7,649	“Hour by hour resolve firmly to do what comes to hand with dignity, and with humanity, independence, and justice. Allow your mind freedom from all other considerations. This you can do, if you will approach each action as though it were your last, dismissing the desire to create an impression, the admiration of self, the discontent with your lot. See how little man needs to master, for his days to flow on in quietness and piety: he has but to observe these few counsels, and the gods will ask nothing more.”	stoicism
7,498	“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”	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
7,166	“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
7,468	“Optimism is an effort.”	stoicism
6,788	“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”	stoicism
6,946	“As the still dawn breaks and first light graces the horizon, we humans are presented with tremendous opportunity. We are gifted with a fresh start, a blank canvas upon which we can paint however we choose.”	stoicism
7,381	“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”	stoicism
7,165	“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”	stoicism
7,214	“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”	stoicism
7,002	“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”	stoicism
6,845	“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”	stoicism
7,034	“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”	stoicism
7,224	“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”	stoicism
7,565	“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”	stoicism
7,487	“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”	stoicism
7,504	“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”	stoicism
7,153	“No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair” does not even come close. It’s grotesque. How easily this could shatter a person, how easily and understandably it might cause them to toss away everything they ever believed, to hate a world that could be so cruel. Yet somehow we have Marcus Aurelius”	stoicism
7,333	“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”	stoicism
7,620	“Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.”	stoicism
7,275	“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”	stoicism
7,136	“It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”	stoicism
6,913	“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”	stoicism
7,654	“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”	stoicism
6,838	“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”	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
7,165	“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”	stoicism
6,794	“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”	stoicism
7,660	“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”	stoicism
7,238	“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”	stoicism
7,253	“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”	stoicism
7,334	“All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.”	stoicism
6,920	“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”	stoicism
6,913	“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”	stoicism
7,338	“Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.”	stoicism
6,808	“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”	stoicism
6,878	“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”	stoicism
7,462	“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”	stoicism
6,811	“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”	stoicism
6,955	“You never know what will be the consequence of misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune”	stoicism
7,167	“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”	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
7,403	“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”	stoicism
6,902	“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”	stoicism
6,932	“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits open here and there, and those very cracks, in one way a failure of the baker's profession, somehow catch the eye and give particular stimulus to our appetite.”	stoicism
6,984	“If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.”	stoicism
7,502	“I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. [...] Truth lies open to everyone.”	stoicism
7,004	“The ability to do without a kingdom is a kingdom.”	stoicism
7,612	“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”	stoicism
7,427	“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”	stoicism
7,520	“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”	stoicism
7,357	“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”	stoicism
6,778	“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”	stoicism
6,843	“For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.”	stoicism
7,261	“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”	stoicism
7,022	“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”	stoicism
6,999	“Amor Fati”	stoicism
7,288	“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”	stoicism
6,943	“Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another one follows and is gone.”	stoicism
7,422	“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”	stoicism
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
6,939	“We human beings are not hive animals. We aren’t like bees or ants who just work constantly for the good of the community.”	stoicism
7,162	“Hunger is by far the best spice.”	stoicism
7,564	“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”	stoicism
7,403	“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”	stoicism
6,963	“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”	stoicism
7,286	“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”	stoicism
6,798	“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”	stoicism
6,934	“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”	stoicism
7,191	“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”	stoicism
7,108	“When that which we are enjoying is a true good, we feel joy; when it is not, we feel, at best, pleasure.”	stoicism
7,417	“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”	stoicism
7,265	“man was given two ears and one mouth for a reason”	stoicism
7,134	“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”	stoicism
7,602	“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”	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
7,269	“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”	stoicism
7,426	“If you admit to having derived great pleasures, your duty is not to complain about what has been taken away but to be thankful for what you have been given.”	stoicism
7,280	“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”	stoicism
7,096	“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”	stoicism
6,986	“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”	stoicism
7,070	“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”	stoicism
6,901	“Beware the folly of lending your focus to vain pursuits. Just as a river, when it is split into countless rivulets, loses its force and becomes but a whimper, a mind divided by trivial pursuits dissipates its strength. Focus, therefore, is not merely concentration, it is selection; not merely observation, it is dedication.”	stoicism
7,573	“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”	stoicism
6,839	“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.”	stoicism
7,021	“A cup with a broken handle can still handle its task.”	stoicism
7,184	“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”	stoicism
7,556	“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”	stoicism
7,214	“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”	stoicism

7,464

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

stoicism

7,294

“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”

stoicism

7,048

“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”

stoicism

6,986

“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”

stoicism

7,636

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

stoicism

7,642

“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”

stoicism

7,567

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

stoicism

7,042

“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”

stoicism

7,650

“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”

stoicism

6,831

“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”

stoicism

7,365

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

stoicism

7,649

“Hour by hour resolve firmly to do what comes to hand with dignity, and with humanity, independence, and justice. Allow your mind freedom from all other considerations. This you can do, if you will approach each action as though it were your last, dismissing the desire to create an impression, the admiration of self, the discontent with your lot. See how little man needs to master, for his days to flow on in quietness and piety: he has but to observe these few counsels, and the gods will ask nothing more.”

stoicism

7,498

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

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

7,166

“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

7,468

“Optimism is an effort.”

stoicism

6,788

“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”

stoicism

6,946

“As the still dawn breaks and first light graces the horizon, we humans are presented with tremendous opportunity. We are gifted with a fresh start, a blank canvas upon which we can paint however we choose.”

stoicism

7,381

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

stoicism

7,165

“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”

stoicism

7,214

“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”

stoicism

7,002

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

stoicism

6,845

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

stoicism

7,034

“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”

stoicism

7,224

“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”

stoicism

7,565

“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”

stoicism

7,487

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

stoicism

7,504

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

stoicism

7,153

“No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair” does not even come close. It’s grotesque. How easily this could shatter a person, how easily and understandably it might cause them to toss away everything they ever believed, to hate a world that could be so cruel. Yet somehow we have Marcus Aurelius”

stoicism

7,333

“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”

stoicism

7,620

“Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.”

stoicism

7,275

“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”

stoicism

7,136

“It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”

stoicism

6,913

“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”

stoicism

7,654

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

stoicism

6,838

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

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

7,165

“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”

stoicism

6,794

“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”

stoicism

7,660

“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”

stoicism

7,238

“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”

stoicism

7,253

“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”

stoicism

7,334

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

stoicism

6,920

“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”

stoicism

6,913

“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”

stoicism

7,338

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

stoicism

6,808

“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”

stoicism

6,878

“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”

stoicism

7,462

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

stoicism

6,811

“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”

stoicism

6,955

“You never know what will be the consequence of misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune”

stoicism

7,167

“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”

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

7,403

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

stoicism

6,902

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

stoicism

6,932

“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits open here and there, and those very cracks, in one way a failure of the baker's profession, somehow catch the eye and give particular stimulus to our appetite.”

stoicism

6,984

“If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.”

stoicism

7,502

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

stoicism

7,004

“The ability to do without a kingdom is a kingdom.”

stoicism

7,612

“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”

stoicism

7,427

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

stoicism

7,520

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

stoicism

7,357

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

stoicism

6,778

“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”

stoicism

6,843

“For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.”

stoicism

7,261

“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”

stoicism

7,022

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

stoicism

6,999

“Amor Fati”

stoicism

7,288

“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”

stoicism

6,943

“Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another one follows and is gone.”

stoicism

7,422

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

stoicism

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

6,939

“We human beings are not hive animals. We aren’t like bees or ants who just work constantly for the good of the community.”

stoicism

7,162

“Hunger is by far the best spice.”

stoicism

7,564

“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”

stoicism

7,403

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

stoicism

6,963

“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”

stoicism

7,286

“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”

stoicism

6,798

“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”

stoicism

6,934

“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”

stoicism

7,191

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

stoicism

7,108

“When that which we are enjoying is a true good, we feel joy; when it is not, we feel, at best, pleasure.”

stoicism

7,417

“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”

stoicism

7,265

“man was given two ears and one mouth for a reason”

stoicism

7,134

“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”

stoicism

7,602

“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”

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

7,269

“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”

stoicism

7,426

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

stoicism

7,280

“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”

stoicism

7,096

“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”

stoicism

6,986

“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”

stoicism

7,070

“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”

stoicism

6,901

“Beware the folly of lending your focus to vain pursuits. Just as a river, when it is split into countless rivulets, loses its force and becomes but a whimper, a mind divided by trivial pursuits dissipates its strength. Focus, therefore, is not merely concentration, it is selection; not merely observation, it is dedication.”

stoicism

7,573

“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”

stoicism

6,839

“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.”

stoicism

7,021

“A cup with a broken handle can still handle its task.”

stoicism

7,184

“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”

stoicism

7,556

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

stoicism

7,214

“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”

stoicism