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6,814 | “When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.” | stoicism |
6,815 | “Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.” | 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 |
6,817 | “My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or arch... | stoicism |
6,818 | “40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help h... | stoicism |
6,819 | “For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.” | stoicism |
6,820 | “When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.” | stoicism |
6,821 | “My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.” | stoicism |
6,822 | “Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.” | stoicism |
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 |
6,824 | “Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” | stoicism |
6,825 | “Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.” | stoicism |
6,826 | “Whatever happens, happens such as you are either formed by nature able to bear it, or not able to bear it. If such as you are by nature form’d able to bear, bear it and fret not: But if such as you are not naturally able to bear, don’t fret; for when it has consum’d you, itself will perish. Remember, however, you are ... | stoicism |
6,827 | “he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat... | stoicism |
6,828 | “I fail to remember ever having made an effort — no trace of struggle is detectable in my life, I am the opposite of a heroic nature. To “want” something, to “strive” for something, to have an “end,” a “desire” in mind — I know none of this from my experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a broad fut... | stoicism |
6,829 | “It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.” | 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 |
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 |
6,832 | “Maximum remedium est irae mora.” | stoicism |
6,833 | “And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.” | stoicism |
6,834 | “Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.” | stoicism |
6,835 | “The stoics divided philosophy into three branches: logic, physics, and ethics. Logic covered not only the rules of correct argumentation, but also grammar, linguistics, rhetorical theory, epistemology, and all the tools that might be needed to discover the truth of any matter. Physics was concerned with the nature of ... | stoicism |
6,836 | “Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators ... | stoicism |
6,837 | “All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From this viewpoint, philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish, and misery brought about, for the Cynics, by social constraints and conventions; for the Epicureans, ... | stoicism |
6,838 | “It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.” | 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 le... | stoicism |
6,840 | “There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw you. They had a point. There's a lot to learn from that generation -- the stoic approach. I think it's disgusting how they've been forgotten about in this way. It's the American hippies' fault, they saw... | stoicism |
6,841 | “[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.” | stoicism |
6,842 | “Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.” | 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 |
6,844 | “To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.” | stoicism |
6,845 | “It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.” | stoicism |
6,846 | “The sun appears to pour itself down, and indeed its light pours in all direction, but the stream does not run out. This pouring is linear extension: that is why its beams are called rays, because they radiate in extended lines. You can see what a ray is if you observe the sun's light entering a dark room through a nar... | stoicism |
6,847 | “Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.” | stoicism |
6,848 | “We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.” | stoicism |
6,849 | “If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!” | stoicism |
6,850 | “[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given n... | stoicism |
6,851 | “Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.” | stoicism |
6,852 | “Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.” | stoicism |
6,853 | “Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.” | stoicism |
6,854 | “There is the mind of a monarch within each of us, wanting to be granted complete freedom of action but not wanting it to be turned against us.” | stoicism |
6,855 | “I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.” | stoicism |
6,856 | “I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.” | stoicism |
6,857 | “Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.” | 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 |
6,859 | “Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.” | stoicism |
6,860 | “The ignorant blame others for their own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise see all blame as foolishness.” | stoicism |
6,861 | “That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.” | stoicism |
6,862 | “Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.” | stoicism |
6,863 | “Your mind is your most powerful ally; master it, and no obstacle will ever stand in your way.” | 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 |
6,865 | “With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of "the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos"; second, the... | stoicism |
6,866 | “Wir müssen uns weigern, die Karten, die uns ausgeteilt wurden, über unser Wohlbefinden entscheiden zu lassen.” | stoicism |
6,867 | “But there can be no such good except as the soul discovers it for itself within itself.” | 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 |
6,869 | “Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of or a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the frui... | stoicism |
6,870 | “Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the ... | stoicism |
6,871 | “Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, ... | stoicism |
6,872 | “Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.” | 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 |
6,874 | “Before concluding the discussion on Partridge’s connection to the Stoic tradition, I present what is probably the greatest proof Partridge was a Stoic: he suffered the public doom of one. Ironically, Partridge may have missed a powerful warning about his own fate within one of the key texts he used in his academies. A... | stoicism |
6,875 | “These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intende... | stoicism |
6,876 | “All roads to Hades are of equal length” | stoicism |
6,877 | “Nothing happens to any creature beyond it’s own natural endurance.” | stoicism |
6,878 | “An open eye in the dark, will find light...” | stoicism |
6,879 | “Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth.” | stoicism |
6,880 | “Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating... | stoicism |
6,881 | “Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.” | stoicism |
6,882 | “Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.” | stoicism |
6,883 | “Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.” | stoicism |
6,884 | “In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.” | stoicism |
6,885 | “You will feel pain. You need to accept this truth. ... When it comes, accept it; embrace it. Realize it's a sensation like any other...the same as being hot or cold. Put it to one side and do what must be done. Don't let it overwhelm or control you. Ever.” | stoicism |
6,886 | “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.” | stoicism |
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 |
6,888 | “Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself.... | 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 |
6,890 | “At its core, Stoicism, like the sturdy oak tree, stands firm amidst the torrential downpour of life’s distractions. It teaches us that while we may not command the winds to change, we possess the power to adjust our sails, to guide our minds through the tumultuous sea of life’s happenings.” | stoicism |
6,891 | “Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You stil... | stoicism |
6,892 | “Stoicism, like a seasoned sculptor, fashions the raw marble of our attention into a well-honed pillar of focus. The true currency of our existence is not time, but attention. The past and the future are but shadows and specters that have no claim over the vivacious vitality of the present moment. Stoicism implores us ... | 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 wie... | stoicism |
6,894 | “Luck plays such an overpowering role in some lives that the thoughtful person must ask: ‘Why have I been cursed with bad luck while another is blessed with so much good luck?’ Believe me, the fortunate person who receives the favorable breaks also wonders about his favored situation. In my case, I have no explanation.... | stoicism |
6,895 | “Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.” | stoicism |
6,896 | “Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.” | stoicism |
6,897 | “Distractions are the relentless waves of the ocean, crashing against the shores of our consciousness. They erode our resolve, and little by little, wash away the sandcastles of our focus. They arrive in various guises: the allure of trivial pleasures, the lure of the inconsequential, the din of idle gossip, the chains... | stoicism |
6,898 | “The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.” | 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 |
6,900 | “Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow... | 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 |
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 |
6,903 | “Imagine, if you will, a bird in flight. When it must overcome the gusts that hinder its path, it beats its wings with unyielding force. Yet, when it soars high in the sky, it spreads its wings and rides the wind, at peace in its journey. This is the model of focus we must aspire to: resolute in the face of opposition,... | stoicism |
6,904 | “True focus requires wisdom in choosing the worthy target, courage in maintaining a resolute mind, and prudence in knowing when to exert effort and when to seek rest. Master these elements, and you begin to understand the nature of focus.” | stoicism |
6,905 | “Nie należy się gniewać na bieg wypadków. Nic ich to bowiem nie obchodzi.” | stoicism |
6,906 | “Pursuing similar results for dissimilar people will make fools of kings and kings of fools.” | stoicism |
6,907 | “One will never be able to control all things that concern an endeavor, but the magic is in riding the wave.” | stoicism |
6,908 | “Strive to articulate your wants loudly so they become interwoven with reality, more than thoughts.” | stoicism |
6,909 | “Verily, life is a series of championships and the joy is to be found in playing the game.” | stoicism |
6,910 | “We should refrain from attempting to change things to fit our narrative of explaining the world, and start changing this narrative to better host the things we experience.” | stoicism |
6,911 | “The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.” | 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 |
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 |
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