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6,853	“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”	stoicism
7,087	“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”	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, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”	stoicism
7,020	“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”	stoicism
7,152	“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live... it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”	stoicism
6,776	“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”	stoicism
7,228	“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”	stoicism
6,853	“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”	stoicism
6,977	“Do not underestimate the quiet and laid-back individuals because displaying stoicism, at certain times, is a superpower.”	stoicism
7,669	“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”	stoicism
7,159	“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”	stoicism
7,083	“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”	stoicism
6,791	“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”	stoicism
7,179	“A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.”	stoicism
7,664	“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...”	stoicism
7,284	“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”	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
7,578	“Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.”	stoicism
7,469	“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”	stoicism
7,643	“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.”	stoicism
6,783	“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus ? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster ? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze , more universal than Confucius ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno ? Did he express grander truths than Cicero ? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza ’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler ’s or Newton ’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare , the greatest of the human race?”	stoicism
6,781	“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”	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
7,293	“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”	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 oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spent many a happy hour by candlelight in that wretched cabin whilst I sewed and he read the Bible to me.”	stoicism
7,306	“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”	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
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
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 still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”	stoicism
6,916	“I am not like the Gods! That was a painful thrust; I'm like the worm that burrows in the dust, Who, as he makes of dust his meager meal, Is crushed and buried by a wanderers heel Is it not dust that stares from every rack And narrows down this vaulting den? This moth's world full of bric-a-brac In which I live as in a pen? Here I should find for what I care? Should I read in a thousand books, maybe, That men have always suffered everywhere, Though now and then some man lived happily?- Why, hollow skull, do you grin like a faun? Save that your brain, like mine, once in dismay Searched for light day, but foundered in the heavy dawn”	stoicism
7,336	“Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.”	stoicism
7,519	“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”	stoicism
7,125	“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”	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
7,673	“I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.”	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
7,400	“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”	stoicism
7,078	“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”	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
7,057	“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”	stoicism
7,076	“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”	stoicism
7,581	“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”	stoicism
7,363	“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”	stoicism
7,492	“Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.”	stoicism
7,431	“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”	stoicism
7,318	“Some people get killed by water. Some die from dehydration.”	stoicism
7,121	“If being better is the surest way of feeling better, it must be better than feeling better.”	stoicism
7,081	“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”	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
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 future! — as upon a smooth sea: no desire ripples upon it. Not in the least do I want anything to be different from what it is; I myself do not want to be any different ... But thus I have always lived.”	stoicism
7,412	“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”	stoicism
7,483	“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”	stoicism
7,524	“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”	stoicism
6,804	“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”	stoicism
7,214	“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
6,862	“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.”	stoicism
6,976	“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”	stoicism
7,122	“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”	stoicism
7,672	“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”	stoicism
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
7,586	“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”	stoicism
7,631	“Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.”	stoicism
7,494	“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”	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
6,793	“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”	stoicism
7,173	“Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.”	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
7,285	“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”	stoicism
7,501	“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.”	stoicism
7,133	“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”	stoicism
7,151	“Some real kings are drama queens.”	stoicism
7,301	“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”	stoicism
6,921	“The closest we can get to “winning” at life is to never give up.”	stoicism
7,331	“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”	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
7,377	“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”	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
7,189	“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”	stoicism
7,019	“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”	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
7,635	“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”	stoicism
7,281	“Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”	stoicism
7,509	“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”	stoicism
7,347	“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”	stoicism
7,104	“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”	stoicism
7,187	“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”	stoicism
7,543	“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”	stoicism
7,064	“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”	stoicism
7,524	“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”	stoicism
7,140	“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”	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
7,015	“It is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.”	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
7,037	“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”	stoicism
7,412	“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”	stoicism
7,006	“Life is a series of problems we must navigate with grace - one problem solved, another arises, again and again until we die.”	stoicism
7,299	“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.”	stoicism
7,321	“A true believer in God prays only to thank, never to ask; and welcomes, with open arms, every single thing that is happening.”	stoicism
6,790	“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”	stoicism
7,506	“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”	stoicism

6,853

“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”

stoicism

7,087

“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”

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, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”

stoicism

7,020

“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”

stoicism

7,152

“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live... it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”

stoicism

6,776

“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”

stoicism

7,228

“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”

stoicism

6,853

“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”

stoicism

6,977

“Do not underestimate the quiet and laid-back individuals because displaying stoicism, at certain times, is a superpower.”

stoicism

7,669

“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”

stoicism

7,159

“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”

stoicism

7,083

“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”

stoicism

6,791

“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”

stoicism

7,179

“A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.”

stoicism

7,664

“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...”

stoicism

7,284

“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”

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

7,578

“Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.”

stoicism

7,469

“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”

stoicism

7,643

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.”

stoicism

6,783

“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus ? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster ? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze , more universal than Confucius ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno ? Did he express grander truths than Cicero ? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza ’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler ’s or Newton ’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare , the greatest of the human race?”

stoicism

6,781

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

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

7,293

“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”

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 oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spent many a happy hour by candlelight in that wretched cabin whilst I sewed and he read the Bible to me.”

stoicism

7,306

“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”

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

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

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 still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”

stoicism

6,916

“I am not like the Gods! That was a painful thrust; I'm like the worm that burrows in the dust, Who, as he makes of dust his meager meal, Is crushed and buried by a wanderers heel Is it not dust that stares from every rack And narrows down this vaulting den? This moth's world full of bric-a-brac In which I live as in a pen? Here I should find for what I care? Should I read in a thousand books, maybe, That men have always suffered everywhere, Though now and then some man lived happily?- Why, hollow skull, do you grin like a faun? Save that your brain, like mine, once in dismay Searched for light day, but foundered in the heavy dawn”

stoicism

7,336

“Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.”

stoicism

7,519

“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”

stoicism

7,125

“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”

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

7,673

“I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.”

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

7,400

“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”

stoicism

7,078

“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”

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

7,057

“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”

stoicism

7,076

“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

stoicism

7,581

“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”

stoicism

7,363

“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”

stoicism

7,492

“Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.”

stoicism

7,431

“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”

stoicism

7,318

“Some people get killed by water. Some die from dehydration.”

stoicism

7,121

“If being better is the surest way of feeling better, it must be better than feeling better.”

stoicism

7,081

“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”

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

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 future! — as upon a smooth sea: no desire ripples upon it. Not in the least do I want anything to be different from what it is; I myself do not want to be any different ... But thus I have always lived.”

stoicism

7,412

“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”

stoicism

7,483

“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”

stoicism

7,524

“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”

stoicism

6,804

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

stoicism

7,214

“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

6,862

“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.”

stoicism

6,976

“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”

stoicism

7,122

“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”

stoicism

7,672

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

stoicism

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

7,586

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

stoicism

7,631

“Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.”

stoicism

7,494

“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”

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

6,793

“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”

stoicism

7,173

“Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.”

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

7,285

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

stoicism

7,501

“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.”

stoicism

7,133

“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”

stoicism

7,151

“Some real kings are drama queens.”

stoicism

7,301

“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”

stoicism

6,921

“The closest we can get to “winning” at life is to never give up.”

stoicism

7,331

“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”

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

7,377

“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”

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

7,189

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

stoicism

7,019

“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”

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

7,635

“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”

stoicism

7,281

“Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”

stoicism

7,509

“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”

stoicism

7,347

“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”

stoicism

7,104

“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”

stoicism

7,187

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

stoicism

7,543

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

stoicism

7,064

“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”

stoicism

7,524

“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”

stoicism

7,140

“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”

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

7,015

“It is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.”

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

7,037

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

stoicism

7,412

“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”

stoicism

7,006

“Life is a series of problems we must navigate with grace - one problem solved, another arises, again and again until we die.”

stoicism

7,299

“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.”

stoicism

7,321

“A true believer in God prays only to thank, never to ask; and welcomes, with open arms, every single thing that is happening.”

stoicism

6,790

“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

stoicism

7,506

“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”

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