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7,597 | “You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.” | stoicism |
7,567 | “Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.” | stoicism |
7,060 | “We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.” | stoicism |
7,494 | “Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.” | 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 |
6,774 | “Warriors should suffer their pain silently.” | stoicism |
7,620 | “Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.” | stoicism |
7,148 | “Marcus wept when he was told that his favorite tutor had passed away. We know that he cried one day in court, when he was overseeing a case and the attorney mentioned the countless souls who perished in the plague still ravaging Rome. We can imagine Marcus cried many other times. This was a man who was betrayed by one... | stoicism |
6,847 | “Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.” | stoicism |
7,179 | “A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.” | stoicism |
7,343 | “Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a co... | 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 dedica... | 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, t... | stoicism |
7,518 | “We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.” | 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 ab... | stoicism |
6,858 | “Lives such as yours—how true it is!—though they should exceed a thousand years, will contract into the smallest span: but those vices of yours will swallow up any amount of time. This length of time you have, that reason prolongs, however swift nature makes its sojourn, is bound to pass quickly through your fingers; f... | stoicism |
7,171 | “A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.” | stoicism |
7,065 | “Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.” | stoicism |
7,609 | “The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.” | stoicism |
7,064 | “Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.” | stoicism |
7,385 | “The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.” | stoicism |
7,295 | “When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.” | stoicism |
7,569 | “Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.” | stoicism |
7,460 | “A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.” | stoicism |
7,406 | “We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.” | stoicism |
7,191 | “Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.” | stoicism |
7,634 | “How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief th... | 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 l... | 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 |
6,912 | “A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.” | stoicism |
7,434 | “Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.” | stoicism |
6,914 | “Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.” | stoicism |
6,994 | “Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.” | stoicism |
7,272 | “I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.” | stoicism |
7,590 | “You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how th... | stoicism |
7,385 | “The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.” | stoicism |
6,873 | “For the military community, philosophy isn't something casually debated. But something that should be fully embodied in everyday thought and action, with the abandonment of all principles not shown practical in the most extreme of environments.” | 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 t... | stoicism |
6,967 | “[A] man ought to be prepared in a manner for this also, to be able to be sufficient for himself and to be his own companion. [...] [S]o ought we also to be able to talk with ourselves, not to feel the want of others also, not to be unprovided with the means of passing our time; to observe the divine administration and... | stoicism |
7,415 | “[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: "What else can you e... | stoicism |
7,348 | “Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.” | stoicism |
7,160 | “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so” | stoicism |
6,948 | “By meditating on our thoughts, feelings, and desires, we are encouraging a sense of self-awareness and self-mastery. We observe the whimsical and impulsive movements of our mind without getting caught up in them, and in doing so we develop a greater understanding of ourselves.” | stoicism |
7,323 | “Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.” | stoicism |
7,217 | “You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love. Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.” | 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 th... | stoicism |
6,784 | “How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.” | stoicism |
7,392 | “Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.” | stoicism |
7,438 | “Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teach... | 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 |
7,247 | “You can look unhappy but feel the opposite. Or vice versa.” | stoicism |
7,000 | “Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?” | stoicism |
7,189 | “To complain about life is to complain about being alive.” | stoicism |
6,926 | “Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.” | stoicism |
7,319 | “The universe is change, and life mere opinion.” | stoicism |
7,210 | “Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.” | stoicism |
6,866 | “Wir müssen uns weigern, die Karten, die uns ausgeteilt wurden, über unser Wohlbefinden entscheiden zu lassen.” | stoicism |
7,180 | “Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.” | 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 |
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 |
7,367 | “Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.” | 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 |
7,291 | “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 ... | stoicism |
7,286 | “Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.” | stoicism |
7,404 | “[E]verything which went beyond our actual needs was just so much unnecessary weight, a burden to the man who had to carry it.” | stoicism |
7,611 | “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 |
7,634 | “How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief th... | 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 ... | stoicism |
7,575 | “The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.” | stoicism |
7,678 | “The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire to warm ... | stoicism |
6,928 | “me dulcis saturet quies; obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis nota Quiritibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei nullo cum strepitu dies. plebeius moriar senex. illi mors gravis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.” | stoicism |
7,584 | “Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.” | stoicism |
6,997 | “If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing ... | stoicism |
7,646 | “Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.” | stoicism |
6,985 | “Every life without exception is a short one.” | stoicism |
7,465 | “The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.” | stoicism |
6,784 | “How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.” | stoicism |
6,926 | “Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.” | 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 |
7,030 | “... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason... | stoicism |
6,926 | “Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.” | 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 ... | stoicism |
7,093 | “Our rationality is a visitor.” | stoicism |
7,613 | “Sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.” | stoicism |
7,454 | “Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.” | stoicism |
6,899 | “The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true... | stoicism |
7,180 | “Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.” | stoicism |
6,864 | “We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.” | stoicism |
7,396 | “Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.” | stoicism |
7,524 | “We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.” | stoicism |
7,061 | “Being in a hurry gives us the illusion of doubling the length of every second.” | stoicism |
7,563 | “The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.” | stoicism |
7,580 | “Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.” | stoicism |
7,052 | “We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.” | stoicism |
6,838 | “It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.” | stoicism |
7,429 | “Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.” | stoicism |
6,780 | “People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?” | stoicism |
7,023 | “Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?” | 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 |
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