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7,168	“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”	stoicism
7,586	“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”	stoicism
7,658	“A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning of history. He will avoid the self-indulgent error of seeing himself in a predicament so unprecedented, so unique, as to justify his making an exception to law, custom or morality in favor of himself. The making of such exceptions has been the theme of public life throughout much of our lifetimes. For twenty years, we've been surrounded by gamesmen unable to cope with the wisdom of the ages. They make exceptions to law and custom in favor of themselves because they choose to view ordinary dilemmas as unprecedented crises.”	stoicism
7,113	“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”	stoicism
6,909	“Verily, life is a series of championships and the joy is to be found in playing the game.”	stoicism
6,956	“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals that I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find food and bad? In me, in my choices.”	stoicism
7,574	“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”	stoicism
6,830	“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”	stoicism
7,149	“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”	stoicism
7,479	“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”	stoicism
7,576	“Not having expected an event makes it seem way better or worse than it really is.”	stoicism
7,209	“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”	stoicism
7,088	“Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”	stoicism
7,071	“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”	stoicism
7,113	“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”	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
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
7,614	“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.”	stoicism
6,995	“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, "I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”	stoicism
6,922	“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,”	stoicism
7,480	“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”	stoicism
7,333	“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”	stoicism
7,541	“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”	stoicism
7,340	“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”	stoicism
7,353	“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”	stoicism
7,429	“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”	stoicism
7,630	“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”	stoicism
7,344	“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”	stoicism
7,079	“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”	stoicism
7,654	“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”	stoicism
7,012	“Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.”	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
7,135	“We do things for others for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,099	“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”	stoicism
6,876	“All roads to Hades are of equal length”	stoicism
6,995	“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, "I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”	stoicism
7,594	“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”	stoicism
6,987	“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”	stoicism
7,522	“Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead.”	stoicism
7,275	“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”	stoicism
7,028	“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”	stoicism
7,657	“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”	stoicism
7,543	“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”	stoicism
7,286	“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”	stoicism
7,542	“The size of your problem is in your mind.”	stoicism
6,823	“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”	stoicism
6,816	“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”	stoicism
7,496	“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
7,458	“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
7,290	“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”	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
6,789	“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”	stoicism
7,659	“To want to know more than is sufficient is a form of intemperance. Apart from which this kind of obsession with the liberal arts turns people into pedantic, irritating, tactless, self-satisfied bores, not learning what they need simply because they spend their time learning things they will never need. The scholar Didymus wrote four thousand works: I should feel sorry him if he had merely read so many useless works.”	stoicism
7,522	“Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead.”	stoicism
7,342	“Silence is often the wisest reply.”	stoicism
7,660	“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”	stoicism
7,259	“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”	stoicism
7,188	“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”	stoicism
7,459	“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”	stoicism
7,619	“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”	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
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
6,985	“Every life without exception is a short one.”	stoicism
6,772	“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”	stoicism
6,929	“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”	stoicism
7,508	“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”	stoicism
7,550	“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”	stoicism
6,889	“...what will you do when you are dead? "My name will remain." Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? "But I shall wear a crown of gold." If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”	stoicism
7,662	“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits”	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; for you do not grasp it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to requirement and easily replaced.”	stoicism
7,098	“We are food even before we are dead.”	stoicism
7,349	“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”	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
7,379	“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”	stoicism
7,036	“A better attitude towards life is better than a better life, and leads to a better life.”	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
7,092	“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”	stoicism
7,404	“[E]verything which went beyond our actual needs was just so much unnecessary weight, a burden to the man who had to carry it.”	stoicism
7,310	“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”	stoicism
7,418	“People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.”	stoicism
6,964	“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”	stoicism
7,507	“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”	stoicism
7,101	“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”	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
7,290	“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”	stoicism
7,232	“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”	stoicism
6,809	“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”	stoicism
7,306	“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”	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 itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”	stoicism
7,164	“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”	stoicism
6,995	“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, "I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”	stoicism
6,893	“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”	stoicism
6,807	“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring me to my true home. I knew I did not belong among people. Whatever they hated about me was a human thing; the nonhuman world has always loved me. I can't remember when it was otherwise. But I have been emotionally crippled by this. There is nothing romantic about being young and angry, or even about turning that anger into art. I go through the motions of living in society, but never feel a part of it. When my family threw me away, every human on earth did likewise.”	stoicism
7,097	“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”	stoicism
7,020	“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”	stoicism
7,670	“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.”	stoicism
6,945	“Rasa susah, khawtir, cemas karena peristiwa eksternal sebernarnya tidak datang dari peristiwa hidup itu sendiri, tetapi dari persepsi dan opini kita sendiri, dan sepenuhnya dibawah kendali kita.”	stoicism
7,371	“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”	stoicism
7,223	“To live is to owe life to die.”	stoicism
6,806	“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”	stoicism

7,168

“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”

stoicism

7,586

“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”

stoicism

7,658

“A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning of history. He will avoid the self-indulgent error of seeing himself in a predicament so unprecedented, so unique, as to justify his making an exception to law, custom or morality in favor of himself. The making of such exceptions has been the theme of public life throughout much of our lifetimes. For twenty years, we've been surrounded by gamesmen unable to cope with the wisdom of the ages. They make exceptions to law and custom in favor of themselves because they choose to view ordinary dilemmas as unprecedented crises.”

stoicism

7,113

“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”

stoicism

6,909

“Verily, life is a series of championships and the joy is to be found in playing the game.”

stoicism

6,956

“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals that I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find food and bad? In me, in my choices.”

stoicism

7,574

“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”

stoicism

6,830

“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”

stoicism

7,149

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

stoicism

7,479

“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”

stoicism

7,576

“Not having expected an event makes it seem way better or worse than it really is.”

stoicism

7,209

“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”

stoicism

7,088

“Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”

stoicism

7,071

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

stoicism

7,113

“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”

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

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

7,614

“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.”

stoicism

6,995

“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, "I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”

stoicism

6,922

“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,”

stoicism

7,480

“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”

stoicism

7,333

“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”

stoicism

7,541

“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”

stoicism

7,340

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

stoicism

7,353

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

stoicism

7,429

“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”

stoicism

7,630

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

stoicism

7,344

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

stoicism

7,079

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”

stoicism

7,654

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

stoicism

7,012

“Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.”

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

7,135

“We do things for others for ourselves.”

stoicism

7,099

“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”

stoicism

6,876

“All roads to Hades are of equal length”

stoicism

6,995

“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, "I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”

stoicism

7,594

“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”

stoicism

6,987

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

stoicism

7,522

“Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead.”

stoicism

7,275

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

stoicism

7,028

“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”

stoicism

7,657

“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”

stoicism

7,543

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

stoicism

7,286

“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”

stoicism

7,542

“The size of your problem is in your mind.”

stoicism

6,823

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

stoicism

6,816

“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”

stoicism

7,496

“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

7,458

“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

7,290

“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”

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

6,789

“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”

stoicism

7,659

“To want to know more than is sufficient is a form of intemperance. Apart from which this kind of obsession with the liberal arts turns people into pedantic, irritating, tactless, self-satisfied bores, not learning what they need simply because they spend their time learning things they will never need. The scholar Didymus wrote four thousand works: I should feel sorry him if he had merely read so many useless works.”

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7,522

“Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead.”

stoicism

7,342

“Silence is often the wisest reply.”

stoicism

7,660

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

stoicism

7,259

“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”

stoicism

7,188

“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”

stoicism

7,459

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

stoicism

7,619

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”

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

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.”

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6,985

“Every life without exception is a short one.”

stoicism

6,772

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

stoicism

6,929

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

stoicism

7,508

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

stoicism

7,550

“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”

stoicism

6,889

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

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7,662

“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits”

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; for you do not grasp it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to requirement and easily replaced.”

stoicism

7,098

“We are food even before we are dead.”

stoicism

7,349

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

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

7,379

“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”

stoicism

7,036

“A better attitude towards life is better than a better life, and leads to a better life.”

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

7,092

“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”

stoicism

7,404

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

stoicism

7,310

“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”

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7,418

“People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.”

stoicism

6,964

“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”

stoicism

7,507

“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”

stoicism

7,101

“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”

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

7,290

“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”

stoicism

7,232

“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”

stoicism

6,809

“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”

stoicism

7,306

“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”

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 itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”

stoicism

7,164

“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”

stoicism

6,995

“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, "I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”

stoicism

6,893

“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”

stoicism

6,807

“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring me to my true home. I knew I did not belong among people. Whatever they hated about me was a human thing; the nonhuman world has always loved me. I can't remember when it was otherwise. But I have been emotionally crippled by this. There is nothing romantic about being young and angry, or even about turning that anger into art. I go through the motions of living in society, but never feel a part of it. When my family threw me away, every human on earth did likewise.”

stoicism

7,097

“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”

stoicism

7,020

“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”

stoicism

7,670

“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.”

stoicism

6,945

“Rasa susah, khawtir, cemas karena peristiwa eksternal sebernarnya tidak datang dari peristiwa hidup itu sendiri, tetapi dari persepsi dan opini kita sendiri, dan sepenuhnya dibawah kendali kita.”

stoicism

7,371

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

stoicism

7,223

“To live is to owe life to die.”

stoicism

6,806

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

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