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7,510	“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”	stoicism
7,122	“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”	stoicism
7,445	“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”	stoicism
7,668	“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”	stoicism
6,842	“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”	stoicism
7,417	“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”	stoicism
7,122	“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”	stoicism
7,660	“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”	stoicism
6,839	“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.”	stoicism
7,194	“Take it to mind, not to heart.”	stoicism
7,477	“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”	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
7,330	“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”	stoicism
7,597	“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”	stoicism
7,411	“All vices are at odds with nature.”	stoicism
7,286	“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”	stoicism
7,197	“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”	stoicism
7,308	“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”	stoicism
6,929	“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”	stoicism
6,918	“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”	stoicism
7,545	“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”	stoicism
6,999	“Amor Fati”	stoicism
7,481	“...when I asked him if he forgave me, he answered that he was not in the habit of cherishing the remembrance of vexation; that he had nothing to forgive; not having been offended.”	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
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 upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.”	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
7,150	“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”	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 and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”	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
7,111	“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”	stoicism
7,607	“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”	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 focus.”	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
6,941	“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”	stoicism
7,539	“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,383	“Но Эпиктет призывал мужественно смотреть в лицо реальности, а реальность такова, что все люди смертны и никто из них не принадлежит нам и не останется с нами навечно. [...] Признав эту реальность, мы понимаем, что должны наслаждаться любовью наших близких и общением с ними, когда это возможно, а не принимать их как должное: ведь неминуемо настанет день, когда «установленное время года» пройдет.”	stoicism
6,978	“Me? I'm a Stoic. Every time my eyes are opened, I am eager to see the world anew.”	stoicism
7,572	“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”	stoicism
7,123	“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”	stoicism
7,240	“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”	stoicism
7,567	“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”	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
7,033	“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”	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
7,581	“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
7,211	“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”	stoicism
7,317	“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”	stoicism
7,222	“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”	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
7,246	“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”	stoicism
7,056	“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”	stoicism
7,072	“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”	stoicism
7,080	“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”	stoicism
6,977	“Do not underestimate the quiet and laid-back individuals because displaying stoicism, at certain times, is a superpower.”	stoicism
7,387	“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”	stoicism
7,215	“There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.” It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now. I love so many people, still. I think I will write about them forever.”	stoicism
7,439	“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”	stoicism
7,402	“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”	stoicism
6,824	“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”	stoicism
6,781	“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”	stoicism
7,426	“If you admit to having derived great pleasures, your duty is not to complain about what has been taken away but to be thankful for what you have been given.”	stoicism
7,169	“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”	stoicism
7,677	“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”	stoicism
7,417	“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”	stoicism
7,284	“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”	stoicism
7,425	“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”	stoicism
7,311	“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”	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
7,048	“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”	stoicism
7,117	“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”	stoicism
7,396	“Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.”	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
7,399	“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”	stoicism
7,286	“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”	stoicism
7,641	“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”	stoicism
7,017	“Though you should be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future, for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?”	stoicism
7,133	“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”	stoicism
7,090	“Every life is a different path to death.”	stoicism
7,402	“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”	stoicism
7,055	“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”	stoicism
6,918	“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”	stoicism
6,853	“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”	stoicism
7,175	“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”	stoicism
7,225	“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”	stoicism
7,512	“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”	stoicism
7,569	“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”	stoicism
6,930	“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”	stoicism
7,553	“After failure, it is possible to keep going– and to fail better.”	stoicism
7,229	“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”	stoicism
7,319	“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”	stoicism
7,269	“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”	stoicism
7,507	“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”	stoicism
7,278	“Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.”	stoicism
7,423	“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”	stoicism
7,573	“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”	stoicism
7,250	“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”	stoicism
7,432	“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”	stoicism
6,883	“Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”	stoicism
7,518	“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”	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

7,510

“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”

stoicism

7,122

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

stoicism

7,445

“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”

stoicism

7,668

“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”

stoicism

6,842

“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”

stoicism

7,417

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

stoicism

7,122

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

stoicism

7,660

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

stoicism

6,839

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

stoicism

7,194

“Take it to mind, not to heart.”

stoicism

7,477

“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”

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

7,330

“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”

stoicism

7,597

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

stoicism

7,411

“All vices are at odds with nature.”

stoicism

7,286

“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”

stoicism

7,197

“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”

stoicism

7,308

“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”

stoicism

6,929

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

stoicism

6,918

“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”

stoicism

7,545

“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”

stoicism

6,999

“Amor Fati”

stoicism

7,481

“...when I asked him if he forgave me, he answered that he was not in the habit of cherishing the remembrance of vexation; that he had nothing to forgive; not having been offended.”

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

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 upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.”

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

7,150

“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”

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 and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”

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

7,111

“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”

stoicism

7,607

“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”

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 focus.”

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

6,941

“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”

stoicism

7,539

“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”

stoicism

7,383

“Но Эпиктет призывал мужественно смотреть в лицо реальности, а реальность такова, что все люди смертны и никто из них не принадлежит нам и не останется с нами навечно. [...] Признав эту реальность, мы понимаем, что должны наслаждаться любовью наших близких и общением с ними, когда это возможно, а не принимать их как должное: ведь неминуемо настанет день, когда «установленное время года» пройдет.”

stoicism

6,978

“Me? I'm a Stoic. Every time my eyes are opened, I am eager to see the world anew.”

stoicism

7,572

“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”

stoicism

7,123

“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”

stoicism

7,240

“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”

stoicism

7,567

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

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

7,033

“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”

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

7,581

“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

7,211

“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”

stoicism

7,317

“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”

stoicism

7,222

“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”

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

7,246

“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”

stoicism

7,056

“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”

stoicism

7,072

“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”

stoicism

7,080

“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”

stoicism

6,977

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

stoicism

7,387

“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”

stoicism

7,215

“There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.” It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now. I love so many people, still. I think I will write about them forever.”

stoicism

7,439

“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”

stoicism

7,402

“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”

stoicism

6,824

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

stoicism

6,781

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

stoicism

7,426

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

stoicism

7,169

“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”

stoicism

7,677

“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”

stoicism

7,417

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

stoicism

7,284

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

stoicism

7,425

“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”

stoicism

7,311

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”

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

7,048

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

stoicism

7,117

“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”

stoicism

7,396

“Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.”

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

7,399

“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”

stoicism

7,286

“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”

stoicism

7,641

“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”

stoicism

7,017

“Though you should be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future, for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?”

stoicism

7,133

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

stoicism

7,090

“Every life is a different path to death.”

stoicism

7,402

“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”

stoicism

7,055

“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”

stoicism

6,918

“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”

stoicism

6,853

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

stoicism

7,175

“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”

stoicism

7,225

“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”

stoicism

7,512

“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”

stoicism

7,569

“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”

stoicism

6,930

“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”

stoicism

7,553

“After failure, it is possible to keep going– and to fail better.”

stoicism

7,229

“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”

stoicism

7,319

“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”

stoicism

7,269

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

stoicism

7,507

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

stoicism

7,278

“Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.”

stoicism

7,423

“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”

stoicism

7,573

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

stoicism

7,250

“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”

stoicism

7,432

“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”

stoicism

6,883

“Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”

stoicism

7,518

“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”

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.”

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